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Fine study of a Fingo beauty at a dance.
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Xhosa maids bathing in the river.
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A typical Transkei scene.
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Three married Fingo women in beautiful headdress.
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Xhosa kiddies at a food pot.
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Grinding corn outside during Festival time.
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Wood carriers in winter time.
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Pondo girls making up before a dance.
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An ox-drawn sledge loaded with corn, homeward bound.
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Witch doctor serving medicine in his shop in Umtata.
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Children being painted up before dancing.
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The grindstone used inside hut for grinding corn.
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Pondo girls doing the POZAAN DANCE.
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Tiny tots dancing.
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Returning from fields homeward bound with baskets of corn.
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One Sunday afternoon. Circle of Pondo dancers enjoying themselves.
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Pondo girl dancing the NOMJEKO.
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Stamping corn in a huge hollowed out rock.
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A unique picture. Married Xhosa twin sisters.
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Women are the same the world over. Here one beauty assists another.
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Youngsters asleep on their bed – a sleeping mat on the floor.
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Pondo initiate wears this funny hat. He is not allowed to look at women during ceremony. By lowering head had automatically obscures face.
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After any strenuous work, a mother always expresses hot milk from her body before feeing baby as they maintain it is harmful to child.
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Witch doctor attending patient, all bangles removed from painful arm. He incises with spear then applies a herbal remedy.
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Mother with child on her back off to town. Both faces painted for beauty.
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A Xhosa woman smoking her traditional Xhosa pipe.
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A fine study of an old Xhosa man.
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A truly magnificent picture. Two-year old Samson, a young Xhosa lad.
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Be it a bottle, a basket or a barrel, Xhosa women carry most goods on their heads.
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A study of an old Xhosa woman.
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Me, my basket and my lovely big beautiful eyes. My name, LEQANI, – 1 ½ years old.
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This woman is wearing a necklace made from the MVANI tree. This tree grows in the forest. It has medicinal qualities, and indicates she is the mother of a baby, and even if baby is not with her the necklet ensures that no one will molest her, even at a beer drink. The necklet is accepted throughout the Transkei by every adult as a mother’s protection at all time
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