IDNO

P.57260.RDG

Description

Full-length portrait of two Herero women and a man. The woman on the left wears an ekori (woman’s headdress of rolled leather with three large leaf shaped projections at top of leather and beadwork). Both women wear leather capes, leather fringed skirts, and beadwork neck, waist, wrist, and ankle ornaments. The man wears a leather loin cloth, a leather belt with a decorative metal belt, and European style leather boots.

Place

SW Africa; Namibia [Sudwestafrika]

Cultural Affliation

Herero

Named Person

Photographer

Schmidt, Hans

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1900

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57192.RDG to P.57260.RDG were found in C274/1/ which came from C274/. The latter was kept in Wooden Drawer VI.

Place: Deutsch Sudwestafrika was a colony of Germany from 1884 until 1915, when it was taken over by South Africa and administered as South West Africa, finally becoming Namibia in 1990. [Source: CIA Factbook, www.cia.gov, JD 19/6/2007]

Group: Herero is a group of Damaraland and northwest Ovamboland territory, Namibia. [Source: Ethnologue Online 15th Edition, JD 19/6/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [JD 2/7/2007]