Sujet

Kaffir Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Kaffir Woman, 1850. 'The Kaffir Woman...carries on her head a water-melon, which grows in the colony to a luxuriant size. Numbers of Kaffirs are employed as labourers; though the woman here portrayed is in her native district - the well-known kraal being shown in the distance...Of late years, the chiefs and their wives, as well as those of superior grade, have imitated the English costume by piecemeal, and many of them cut a very grotesque appearance. The ladies wear a shabby, gaudy-tinted petticoat, a shawl of doe-kin, and a coloured handkerchief bound round their woolly pates similar to the Hottentot women, and which never comes off until it falls off by age and dirt; ablution being never resorted to by these races'. From an article about South Africa in "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_228

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,1Mo (1,8Mo) / 27,5cm x 42,0cm / 3246 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa female women woman people black South Africa fruit country local continent British African dress balancing South African native location Victorian century Britain newspapers press concept watermelon APPAREL B&W full length full-length engraved engraving racism 19th century black & white black and white B W kaffir nineteenth century racist The Print Collector Illustrated London News kaffre ILN caffre kafir indigenous newspaper portrait indigenous people Unknown kaffirs 19th-century