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Title: The latest civilising impulse...
Subject: African languages - History
Description: Typed notes, with handdrawn maps.
Identifier: islandora:7637

Title: Bride arrives for the traditional part of her wedding
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi arrives for the traditional part of her wedding in the Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding at the homestead of the groom. 1999.
Identifier: islandora:7327

Title: Interior of a house
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Dwellings, Interior decoration--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Interior of what is probably a round square house in Pondoland. Notice the grinding stone on the bottom left and the picture on the wall.
Identifier: islandora:5428

Title: Mass baptism
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Members of the Gauteng branch of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe, come to the Klip River in Soweto for baptism. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7400

Title: Prosecution, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Youth, South African Police, Prosecution
Description: Members of the families bringing the prosecution, from left, Mrs Georgina Williams, Mr Theo Williams, Mr Martin Magmoed and Mrs Williams's sister Mrs A. Du Toit.
Identifier: islandora:17599

Title: Mass marriage ceremony
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. A mass marriage ceremony at the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. 2 August 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7347

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Welkom ; Rietfontein ; The people of Uitkoms
Subject: Thys, Ragel, Nama language, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Ragel Thys talks about bringing groups of people together to work, even children
Identifier: islandora:31448

Title: Man in traditional dress
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Older people--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Clothing
Description: A man in traditional dress. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5635

Title: Emilia Kuvangu Muhinda, San artist
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, elderly woman, painting, portrait, Art, San--South Africa--Northern Cape, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, Painters--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12456

Title: Van Rhynsdorp
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Vanrhynsdorp Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Van Rhynsdorp area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., Map 702 is printed on linen. Copy 701 is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24867

Title: Family and friends of the accused sing freedom songs outside the Supreme Court, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Politics, African National Congress, Political prisoners, Apartheid, Political activists
Description: African National Congress (ANC) trial. Family and friends of the 15 accused sing freedom songs as they walk to the station from the Supreme Court building yesterday afternoon.
Identifier: islandora:15936

Title: Queenstown
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Queenstown Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Queenstown area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate.", Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24854

Title: Run for your lives! George Bush has been given another four years to promote family values
Subject: United States--Foreign relations--Iraq--Caricatures and cartoons, War--Caricatures and cartoons, Iraq War, 2003-2011--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, Iraq
Description: There seemed to be a disconnect between George Bush's promotion of warm family values at home in the USA while continuing to sew mayhem among the populace of Iraq by continuous bombing. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6134

Title: Sacrifice and drums
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Young men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and cus
Description: Sacrifice and drums around an open grave. This photograph depicts the same ritual event as seen in: Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. Plate I.
Identifier: islandora:5512

Title: Dancing at a beer-drink
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Dancing at a beer-drink.
Identifier: islandora:5385

Title: Mandela walks amongst ANC [African National Congress] supporters, Cape Town
Subject: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Crowds--South Africa, African National Congress, Post-apartheid era
Description: Nelson Mandela and supporters
Identifier: islandora:14428

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Welkom ; Rietfontein ; The people of Uitkoms
Subject: Malgas, Jakob, Kruiper, Dawid, Struizen Dam, Boksputs, Nama language, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Land tenure, ,
Description: Dawid Kruiper, Jakob Malgas and Tony Traill discuss land claims with particular reference to Struizen Dam and Boksputs
Identifier: islandora:31452

Title: Ramkie
Subject: Musical instruments--Botswana, Tswana (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.31 Spike lutes, Height: 140mm (5.5in), Width: 123mm (4.7in), Length: 561mm (22in), Place of production: Botswana
Identifier: islandora:20240

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