Photographs taken while staying with Tchiliwandele

Item Set

Title

Photographs taken while staying with Tchiliwandele

Creator

Diana Powell-Cotton

Date

30 May to 2nd June 1937.

Items

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  Soba's 2 wives

  The photograph shows two women sitting together, facing the camera and smiling. Both women wear a series of plaited raffia and bead necklaces. The older women's necklaces include a large Omba(conus shell). The women are likely to be two of Tchiliwandele's three wives. Square black and white photograph taken on a Rolliflex camera by Diana Powell-Cotton while staying with Soba Tchiliwandele in present day Huila Province.
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  Tchiliwandele

  A portrait of Soba Tchiliwandele sitting and looking at the camera, his head rests on one hand. He is wearing a cap which is now in the Powell-Cotton Museum collection although the Omba (conus shells) attached to it are not.. He described the hat and the Omba as symbols of his position Soba and was unwilling to sell them. Square black and white photograph taken on a Rolliflex camera by Diana Powell-Cotton while staying with Soba Tchiliwandele in present day Huila Province.