Ixopo
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| Costume dress |
outfit worn by courting youth from Khuze people of Highflats |
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| Costume dress |
Outfit worn by courting youth from the Khuze people of Highflats. |
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| Costume dress |
Outfit worn by male to dance amongst the Khuze of the Highflats area. |
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| Costume dress |
Two older married women from Mtolo family area of KwaMdakana. |
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| Costume dress |
Bhacamarried womans dress from Umzimkhulu |
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| Costume dress |
Cloth with plastic headwork edges. worn one above other, usually the green over red |
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| Costume headdress |
Head dress beaded caps and top knots worn by Bhaca and Khuze married woman |
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| Costume headdress |
Head dress conssting of wig top-knot and cover and beaded worn by Bhaca married woman |
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| Hip -cloth |
Hip-cloth worn over hip on top of other by engaged girl in the dresss for visiting the in law family on trial marriage |
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| Western dress |
Christian dress in western style as symbolic of conversion |
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| Young Nhlangwini man |
Face-cuts on the face of a young Nhlangwini man in Ixopo area c1940. From: Hallet, L.G. African tribes employed on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, Johannesburg, 1944. |