Two women

Item

Title

Two women

Description

Two women facing away from the camera. They both wear long skirts, thick leather belts and backstraps with 'omba' attached. One holds a pipe. In the background you can see a wall of logs and a thatched roof.
Previously stored in Folder: Ovambo, Kwanyama. People - Dress - Cattle - Homestead.
Please see APC and DPC diaries for July 1937 for an account of their time in Namibia, then called South West Africa.
[NSty 06/2021]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

July 1937

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Black & White Photograph

Identifier

PHOT0.4.3.36.R.101.7
R101-7_x001d__x001d__x001d_

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton

Space/Place

Namibia_x001d__x001d_
Cultural Group: Kwanyama_x001d_
Owambo

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust