258 •(SOUTH AFRICA)

Homemade South African album with 24 photographs detailing the practices, customs, and people of the Mpondo tribe.

The album was made by Mrs. Fred Clarke (née Ethel Goss) (c. 1890-post 1940?), Thatchings, Umtata (the capital of what used to be Transkei, now called the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa). Including extraordinary images of the Mpondo, apparently made by the wife of a trader, including rituals and ceremonies, herbalists, doctors, children, beer making, everyday routines, and more, all with a sympathetic ethnographic approach. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 4x2½ inches (10.2x6.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with a neat caption, in ink, below the image. Oblong18mo, wooden covers with a blue cloth backstrip, starting; with the photographer's name and copyright, in ink, inside the front cover. 1930s

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