Ethnic costume

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A young woman in traditional dress, wearing beaded jewelry, and holding a closed umbrella and some fabric

 

Caption for photograph: A Girl

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 35

 

 

A young married woman, with a traditional hairstyle

 

Caption for photograph: A Married Woman

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 35

 

 

A chief, seated on a chair, with a young man and four small children alongside him

 

Caption for photograph: Heathen Chief - Table Mt.

Description: Early twentieth-century.  The young man is carrying a shield and stick.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 35

 

 

Four young men wearing beaded jewelry and carrying small shields and sticks, in front of a forested area

 

Caption for photograph: Heathen Dandies

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 35

 

 

An elderly woman and a young woman standing by a dirt road, Umbumbulu

 

Caption for photograph: Grandma & child.  Imbumbulu

Postcard of six men in traditional dress, outside a thatched dwelling

 

Label on photograph: Natives at their Kraal

Description: Early twentieth-century.  Three elderly men are seated in front, and one of them has a large army-style coat draped around his shoulder.  Three young men are standing at the back, two of them holding shields.

 

A young woman stooping over a baby

 

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 33

 

 

Young woman wearing traditional dress and beaded jewelry, standing outside a thatched dwelling

 

Caption for photograph: Worth 10 Oxen!?

Description: Early twentieth-century.  The woman is holding a few small gourds.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 33

 

 

A group of women and children standing outside two traditional huts

 

General caption on page: Home Life
 
Description: Early twentieth-century.  Two of the women are wearing traditional dress, and one woman is wearing western dress and head-covering.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

A tribal woman and child, with two men in the background

 

General caption on page: Home Life

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 32

 

 

Young women and girls grouped together on a dirt road

 

Caption for photograph: Girls going to Party
 
Description: Early twentieth-century. 

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 32

 

 

Five young tribal girls, wearing beaded necklaces

 

Caption for photograph: Girls

General caption on page: Difference in Hair Dress.  Married women have the Inkehle
 
Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 32

 

A young woman in traditional dress, wearing beaded earrings, bracelets, and headband

 

General caption on page: Difference in Hair Dress.  Married women have the Inkehle

Description: Early twentieth-century. The woman is also wearing multiple braided or woven necklaces, and a fabric armband.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

Two women in traditional dress

 

General caption on page: Difference in Hair Dress.  Married women have the Inkehle

Description: Early twentieth-century.  One of the women is wearing the traditional hairstyle of a married woman.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

Mrs Jessup with two married women in traditional dress, standing outside a corrugated-iron building

 

Caption for photograph: Mrs Jessup and two married women

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 31

 

 

Umakoti

 

Caption for photograph: Umakoti

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 31

 

 

Two women in traditional dress standing outside a corrugated-iron building

 

Description: Early twentieth-century.

 

Karl Robert Brueckner papers (KCM 91/2)

File 6 (KCM 91/2/6)

Sheet 31

 

 

A young man holding a bottle, possibly administering medicine to a woman and baby nearby

 

Caption for photograph: Muti. (Medicine)

A group of people, some in traditional dress and some in western dress, outside a hut

 

Caption for photograph: Later on Well(?)settled

Note: This photograph seems to be paired with a photograph captioned "Care Free yet" (KCM 91/2/6 (Sheet 29); the title of the image is "Traditional girls and young children")

Description: Early twentieth-century. 

 

Traditional girls and young children

 

Label on photograph: Natal ± 1918

Caption for photograph: Care Free yet

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