IDNO

LS.125908.RHD

Description

A group of Bemba women carry out the second bush ceremony. In the audience, a woman plays a drum as the others look on at the Bemba woman performing the ceremonial dance and smiling at the floor in celebration. [VS 2/12/14]

Place

S Africa; Zambia [Northern Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Bemba

Named Person

Photographer

?Richards, Audrey

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1930 - 1931; 1933 - 1934

Collection Name

Macfarlane CollectionRichards Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.125828 - LS.125878 were found unaccessioned in a wooden box, now number C655/ in the Photo Store, in Bay M.3.

Photographer: The photographer is probably Audrey Richards (1899 - 1984), who conducted fieldwork in the then Northern Rhodesia among the Bemba in 1930-31, 1933-34 and 1957. [JD 12/9/2013]