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Costume headdress

Headdress married woman Msinga

Costume dress

Cape salampore stripped with large plastic yellow bead edge. worn by married woman

Costume headdress

Headdress married woman Msinga 

Costume headdress

Face towel in different shapes 

Costume headdress

Head dress conssting of wig top-knot and cover and beaded worn by Bhaca married woman

Costume headdress

Head dress beaded caps and top knots worn by Bhaca and Khuze married woman

Letters to Sam from Phyllis Naidoo

Letters from Phyllis Naidoo to Sam

Costume headdress

Headdress married woman

Costume Cape

Cape from Umvoti area

Costume Cape

Cape with large plastic beadwork edge and cape with small apron worn by married woman from Ndwedwe

Costume Cape

Brown synthetic cloth worn by married woman in the Bathenjeni clan area of Msinga

Abstract Animal and figures

Abstract Animal and figures

Revelation of St John

Revelation of St John

African Policeman

African Policeman

Indentured Indian History - 1860

In Natal, the arrival of the Indentured Indian in 1860 marked the beginnings of an organised scheme whereby approximately 152,184 Indians arrived to seek gainful employment in a fledgling sugar industry.

Indenture Conditions (Indian Patriot, April 1909)

Indian Patriot

Girmitya tales : an odyssey

The British settlers’ (c1840s) saw sugar as a viable export commodity but there was a serious shortage of labour. The fate of the colony “hangs on a thread, the thread is labour (Natal Mercury, April 1859).

TURBANS AND TOP HATS Indian Interpreters in the Colony of Natal, 1880-1910

This dissertation is concerned with an historical examination of Indian Interpreters in the British Colony of Natal during the period, 1880 to 1910.

Beadwork belt

Zulu from Eshowe  glass beadwork coils with plastic beadwork patches attached

Beadwork pin

Beaded pin pin Usually worn pinned to clothes

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