photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,B82.14
- Description
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Frontal, three-quarter length portrait of Ndebele adult female "cane seller". Wearing skirt of spotted cloth, neck-ornament of beads and horn [?]. Seated, holding bundle of canes in one hand, bundle of cloth [?] in other. Painted [?] backdrop.
Medium: Black and white. Collotype?
Format: Mounted on card. Second print mounted on other side of card.
- Production date
- 1898 (?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 19.90 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Circumstances: Af,82.13-24 belong to the same series. Mounted on cards which appear to have been part of an album.
Biography: Unclear whether 1898 refers to date. Unclear whether McCarthy, inscribed on mounts of some images in series, was photographer.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Print mounted on acidic [?] card.
- Acquisition date
- 1898-1998
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum?
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B82.14
