A group of young women initiates, Lesotho

LESOTHO, Basotho, Sotho (African people), Initiates, Initiation rites
Collection: 
Campbell Collections
Resource Type: 
Photographs
Language: 
English
Resource Identifier: 
KCM 96/2 , File 28
File Type: 
Picture
Source : 
Ramseyer and Kruger family papers: Photographs

 

Handwritten label on page (possibly written by archivist who sorted the collection): "Sotho girl initiates"

 

Description: There are fifteen young women standing in a row, and each of them appears to be holding a stick.  The women are painted with a white mixture, and are wearing skirts made of skin.  They have thick coils wrapped around their waists and upper bodies, and their legs are painted various individual patterns.  

 

 

Ramseyer/ Kruger family papers (KCM 96/2) ;

File 28 ;

Page 36a

 

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A copy of this picture is available through the Campbell Collections, please contact the Campbell Collections for enquiries regarding the images from the Ramseyer/ Kruger family papers.

 

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