IDNO

P.63792.ACH2

Description

"The prosecutor, Chief Mapili’s court, Butha-Buthe, Basutoland"

Place

S Africa; Lesotho; Butha Buthe [Basutoland]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Mapili

Photographer

Meyerowitz, Herbert Vladimir

Collector / Expedition

Date

1936

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.63791.ACH2 to P.63807.ACH2 were found in the paper parcel formerly belonging to batch 121, now numbered C346/.
They are large mounted prints, mainly depicting people from Basutoland, taken by a single photographer whose signature appears under the image on the mount. Each print is captioned.

Biographical Information: Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz (b.1900 St. Petersburg, d.1945 London) was an artist, educator and British colonial administrator in Africa. In 1935, he made a study of the crafts in Lesotho (then Basutoland), which he wrote up in A Report on the Possibilities of the Development of Village Crafts in Basutoland (Morija Printing Works, 1936). He organised an exhibition of African Arts and Crafts as part of the International Educational Conference in Salisbury, Rhodesia. From 1937, Meyerowitz began to develop a scheme for an Institute of West African Arts, Industries and Social Sciences. [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._V._Meyerowitz, JD 12/12/2012]

Bibliographical Reference: A Report on the Possibilities of the Development of Village Crafts in Basutoland (Morija Printing Works, 1936). [JD 12/12/2012]