(McGregor Museum, Kimberley, Duggan-Cronin collection reference number dc2566. Shangaan mother and child taken in Portuguese East Africa, 1933)
The image appears in Duggan-Cronin's THE BANTU TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA, Reproductions of photographic studies, Volume IV, Section I, Plates I-XL: The Vathonga (The Thonga-Shangaan People) (1935), where it is Plate X, titled 'A Shangaan Woman and Child', with the caption on the facing tissue guard:
A SHANGAAN WOMAN AND CHILD. The woman is wearing a ntshila, an imported cloth of a dark blue or dark red colour, which is tied under the arms, and a skirt (ntshuvu) consisting of several yards of printed calico pleated at the back and sides. A multi-coloured piece of cloth (nguvu) is thrown over her left shoulder. Around her neck she wears a string of heavy glass beads (vuhlalu), and on her legs brass rings (vumborani). The child is carried in a skin sling (mbeleko) on her back.
A very good image, mounting tape on the back, preserved in a mylar sleeve.
