An FHYA selection of photographs from the Duggan-Cronin collection at the McGregor Museum

Scope and Content

[Source of metadata - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2024, using description from the Walthers collection website: In 1929, Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, an Irish-South African who lived in the mining town of Kimberley, set out to depict what he considered to be the disappearing indigenous populations of South Africa. His monumental study, titled The Bantu Tribes of South Africa, draws upon tens of thousands of photographs taken during years of travel within the region, meticulously classified by what he viewed as tribe and group. He published the images in eleven volumes, paired with descriptive captions and anthropological essays. Here, Duggan-Cronin's photographs portray black South African subjects as inhabitants of seemingly timeless and archaic rural areas, bound to customs of the past. While renowned for their superior technical composition, and described by Nelson Mandela as "a matter of national pride," Duggan-Cronin's photographs have also been criticized for reducing black subjects to ethnographic types.]

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Title

An FHYA selection of photographs from the Duggan-Cronin collection at the McGregor Museum

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Material Designation

Photographic image

Reproduction Conditions

Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Events

Event Actor	Event Type	Event Date	Event Description
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA)	Online curation	2024-

Contents

Item: Jozana's Nek, Herschel district

Item: Jozana's Nek, Herschel district

Item: Jozana's Nek, Herschel district

Item: The Majuba Mountains

Item: Oliver Mehlomakulu

Item: Hlubi man

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi man

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi Kwedin

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi man

Item: Hlubi youth

Item: Hlubi man

Item: Hlubi Kwedin

Item: Hlubi Kwedins

Item: Hlubi warrior

Item: Hlubi Kwedin

Item: Hlubi man

Item: Hlubi Umfana

Item: Hlubi youths

Item: Hlubi Kwedins

Item: Hlubi men

Item: Hlubi youths

Item: Hlubi youths

Item: Hlubi kwedins fully dressed

Item: Hlubi Abafana

Item: Hlubi Umfana on horseback

Item: Hlubi bride

Item: Hlubi bride

Item: Hlubi traditional doctress

Item: Hlubi traditional doctress

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi traditional doctress

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi girl

Item: Hlubi Intombi

Item: Hlubi Intombi

Item: Hlubi girls

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi woman

Item: Hlubi bride

Item: Hlubi woman in Baca dress

Item: Hlubi mother and child

Item: Hlubi mother and child

Item: Hlubi Intombis

Item: Hlubi girls dancing

Item: Hlubis threshing mealies

Item: Hlubi bird scarer and his hut

Item: Hlubi girls

Item: Hlubi men drinking beer

Item: Hlubi man making a grain basket

Item: Hlubi girls shelling beans

Item: Hlubi kraal

Item: Typical Hlubi home

Item: Hlubi home life

Item: Hlubi hut

Item: Hlubi grain basket

Item: Hlubi kwedins riding oxen

Item: Hlubi hen hut

Item: Hlubi old woman

Item: Hlubi huts

Item: Interior of aHlubi hut

Item: Hlubi sleigh

Item: Hlubi women reaping sorghum

Item: Hlubi kwedins riding oxen

Item: Hlubi women reaping corn

Item: Hlubi man and umfana

Item: Hlubi ntombi

Item: Two women and homesteads near Jozana's Nek, Herschel district

Item: Hlubi girls

Item: Hlubi girl

Item: Hlubi Kwedin

Item: Hlubi youth riding an ox near Jozana's Nek, Herschel district

Item: Hlubi Umfana

Item: Scene at Roda, Mount Ayliff

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