Slipping coil on to girl's arm

Item

Title

Slipping coil on to girl's arm

Description

A young woman sits on the ground holding out her arm to a man who is beginning to tighten a wire coil onto her arm. This photograph is part of a series of nine which shows the process for making a bracelet which was then acquired by Diana and Antoinette Powell Cotton and is now in the museum's collection. Square black and white photograph taken on a Rolliflex camera by Diana Powell-Cotton while staying with Soba Tchiliwandele in present day Huila Province.
This is part of a series of nine photographs which shows the process for making a bracelet which was then acquired by Diana and Antoinette Powell Cotton and is now in the museum's collection. ON1937/594 [NS 30/09/2020]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

31 May 1937

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Black & White Photograph

Identifier

PHOTO.4.3.36.R.29.5
R29-5

Source

Diana Powell-Cotton

Space/Place

Huila [province] Quipungu [near town]
Angola

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust