M0005316: Two people with full body paint, ready for a dance, Bomvanaland, Eatern Cape, South Africa

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Bomvana Abakweta, Bomvanalang

Photograph from an unknown source of two Abakweta (young Xhosa men) dressed for a dance. Their bodies are fully painted. Southern Africa.

November 1937

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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