Photograph( Visual Item)
Attached files
Type
Image
Caption
Photographic plate published in Lestrade 1929 (Vol. II, Plate XXV) captioned, "Diviner at Kanye" taken in Kanye by Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (1919)
File
Plate XXV.jpg
Description
Photograph of a diviner with his divining bones. Caption: "Plate XXV: Diviner at Kanye".
Type
Visual Item
Held by
Identifiers
(687.5) 069.7: 572. 9(68) (084.12)
Chronology
1919
Provenance
This photo was taken in 1919 in Kanye by Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin: "This is a ngaka with his divining-bones (ditaola) spread, in the ritual manner, on a skin. He sits cross-legged in the fashion proper for diviners. His whisk (seditshè) is somewhat unusual in that it terminates in a jackal's tail instead of the more common ox-tail. The whisk may be used as a fly whisk in the ordinary way, or it may be used to spray people and objects with his medicines."
Spatial
None
Makes connections with
- has former or current location Kanye (None)
Archival Status