Nankali

Item

Title

Nankali

Description

The photograph depicts a young girl, smiling with her arms crossed and her eyes shut. She wears a number of necklaces made of etched reeds, plaited raffia and cog wheels. Square black and white photograph taken on a Rolliflex camera by Diana Powell-Cotton while staying with Soba Kanguli near Mungu in present day Huila Province.
The necklaces shown are similar to those in the collection.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

1937

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Black & White Photograph

Identifier

PHOTO.4.3.36.R.16.1
R16-1

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton

Space/Place

Huila [province], Mungu [town]
Angola

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust