IDNO

T.177855.JCP

Description

On typed listing "46.14; huts at village beyond Mazabuka; 29.8.61; Zambia; Southern; Mazabuka district; hut painting; wall decoration; village scene; houses; present"

Houses in a village near Mazabuka. Two houses can be seen here, for the closer house the design is made with a horizontal white band in the centre of the wall, and above rows of triangles made with dots.
For the other house, the top half of the wall uses an alternating pattern of white squares with a brown plant-like depiction, and brown squares with a white plant.
Two children can be seen next to one of the houses. [FG 31/07/2025]

Place

S Africa; Zambia; Southern Province; Mazabuka District

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Chaplin, Jim

Collector / Expedition

Date

29 August 1961

Collection Name

Chaplin Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.177259.JCP - ... were located together in a apple box, now numbered C795/.

T.177809.JCP - T.178062.JCP were located in a slide drawer chest inside a red box now numbered C795/3.

T.79531001.JCP - T.79531072.JCP were located in a slide drawer now numbered C795/3/1.