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"The downs" Herne Bay

"The downs" Herne Bay

Workers at beer factory

Workers at beer factory

Landscape and water fall

Land scape and water fall

Woman and her bicycle

Woman and her bicycle

Costume headdress

Headdress married woman Stanger

Headdress for married woman from Table Mountain area, 1983

Headdress for married woman from Table Mountain area, 1983

Headdress for married woman, Table Mountain area 1983

Headdress for married woman from Table mountain areas 1983

Kerchiefs, rags and face towels used either as ties for around head, legs or sticks by males and female in Ndwedwe, uMbumbulu and Pietermaritzburg areas

Black and red face-towels joined. Yellow spotted face-towel specially made for Kheswa. All are used either as ties around head, legs or sticks by traditional males and females in Ndwedwe, uMbumbulu, and Pietermaritzburg areas.

Pregnancy apron worn by Ndwedwe married woman c1980s

Pregnancy apron worn by married women from Ndwedwe c1980

Apron worn by girls and married women of Southern Natal around Durban

Apron with beaded cloth edge and single beads along sides. Possibly Southern Natal or Natal around Durban areas, c1900. Such cloths were worn by both girls and married women either as breast cover or as a cape/ shoulder cover (for reference see Marriannhill Mission photographs).

Milk pail

Milk pail,  Zulu. Original collection c1930

Zulu milk pail

Zulu milkpail 

Zulu milk pail

Zulu milk pail

Headrest,wooden carved with sis individual legs

Headrest, wooden carved with six individual legs. blackened or dark wood.

Zulu headrest

Zulu Headrest double fretwork 

Headrests

Headrest wooden carved with zig-zag pattern and snuff containers. Headrest , woden carved with six legs. Headrest wooden carved with fretwork. double. backned. Possile c1890s or mid 20th century,

Headrest. carved wood with incised burnt pattern of house and hills. Belonged to elderly woman from Bathenjini clan area of Msinga c1940-50s

Headrest carved wood with incised burnt pattern of house and hills. Belonged to elderly woman from Bathenjini clan area Msinga c1940-50

Headrest

North East African headrest with a curved rest mounted on a circular base..

Zulu Milking Pail

A wooden milk pail with three legs, commonly known as 'Ithunga'

Outfit worn by girl in "ukuhlefulela" age set.

Outfit worn by girl in "ukuhlefulela" age-set (girl who has not reached puberty as yet) from Khuze of Highflats 1983

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