Young woman

Item

Title

Young woman

Description

A young woman stands looking towards the camera in front of a pile of ox skulls held in a Y shaped tree branch. There is a fence of logs in the background. She is wearing an ostrich shell skirt over hide at the back and has a cloth skirt draped over the ostrich shells at the front. She holds the cloth to reveal the ostrich shell skirt
Please see APC and DPC diaries for July 1937 for an account of their time in Namibia, referred to as SWA.
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Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

July 1937

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Black & White Photograph

Identifier

PHOT0.4.3.36.R.107.9
R.107-9

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton

Space/Place

Namibia
Owambo

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust