IDNO

LS.121095.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Zulu. XI.III. Zulu.17. B. AF.V.16.
Henley. Bride + b’maids.
(2 slides)." [manuscript in ink]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; KwaZulu-Natal; near Pietermaritzburg; Henley [Natal]

Cultural Affliation

Zulu; Inadi tribe

Named Person

Mhlola

Photographer

Rose, Mabel

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [B.A.A.S. Meeting 1905, Cape Town]

Date

25 August 1905

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Travel Notes in South Africa
E. Sidney Hartland, in Folklore , Vol. 17, No. 4 (Dec. 31, 1906), pp. 472-487. Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd, pl. 13, and captioned:
"Zulu Wedding at Henley: the Bride and her Companions."
Notes on p.427 include:
"A Zulu Wedding.
On Friday, the 25th August, in the presence of the Governor of Natal as Supreme Chief, at Henley, near Pietermaritzburg, the marriage of Mhlola (whose name means Prodigy), Hereditary Chief of the Inadi tribe, with one of the girls of the tribe, was celebrated." [Source: www.jstor.org, JD 21/11/2012]

Related Image: Same image, uncropped, is held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, with the following information:
"1999.11.9. Bride and helpers at a Zulu wedding ceremony
Photographer: Henry Balfour
Date of Photo: 25 August 1905
Place: South Africa: Natal; Henley; near Pietermaritzburg
Cultural Group: Zulu
Format: Film negative 80 x 105 mm
Acquisition: Henry Balfour - Found unentered 1999
Description: The bride (dressed in leopard skin) and retainers at wedding ceremony witnessed by British Association members.
Other Information - See Balfour diary 1905. [Source: http://databases.prm.ox.ac.uk, JD 21/11/2012]

Expedition / Collector: This photograph was taken during a wedding, which the BAAS conference group visited on the 25th August 1905. The wedding was between the chief, Mhlola of the Nadi, and a commoner bride. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/16/2013]