Sujet

Fingoe Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Fingoe Woman, 1850. 'The Fingoe Woman from Algoa Bay was sketched at Port Elizabeth, where a large portion of this tribe is located along the coast as far as Sunday's River. These women are very robust and useful; they are in the habit of carrying passengers on their backs from the surf-boats to the shore. Their vest is composed entirely of sheepskins, sewn together with the woolly part next the skin: the bag behind is used for the purpose of carrying their children in. They invariably wear a necklace composed of bits of wood, metal, beads, &c., tied to a string, which are supposed by these unenlightened people to possess a particular charm. The head-dress they wear is merely composed of a piece of cotton handkerchief. Their feet are uncovered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_230

Model release

NA

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NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,1Mo (2,9Mo) / 32,3cm x 42,0cm / 3811 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa animal female women woman people black South Africa country local continent British headdress African profile South African native location Victorian century Britain newspapers press B&W headgear engraved engraving head-dress sheepskin 19th century animal skin black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector animal hide Illustrated London News ILN indigenous newspaper portrait indigenous people Unknown 19th-century head wrap headwrap