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Collection of 12 Ndebele, Xhosa and Zulu Village and Portrait Studies
Twelve Hasselblad transparencies

Item date(s): c 1940s

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982)


Medium: Photographs
Pages: 12pp
Size: 8 x 8cm
Technique: Photograph
Edition: Unique

Type: Photograph

Place publication: Pretoria
Publisher: The artist
ART 1754

Additional notes:
Plus a full set of large photographs:

a. Woman with felt hat decorated with beads.

b. Child with pot belly and beaded ornaments.

c. Woman with beaded crown - cracked glass background.

d. Woman with beaded and metal neck and forehead ornaments.

e. Group of four children in front of stick fence.

f. Child with beaded earrings and neck ornaments.

g. Seated bare-breasted woman with blanket.

h. Sad child with braided hair.

i. Pubescent girl with beaded neck, bracelet, midriff and skirt ornaments.

j. Xhosa woman smoking a pipe. (2 copies)

k. Woman with beaded forehead, necklace and earrings.

l. Blind child in front of beaded blanket.

Reference note:
Plate No. 11B in "South African Paint Pot" is a Hasselblad photograph by Battiss; one of Twelve Hasselblad transparencies. Glass positives.

Illustrated on p25 (1940.02) of Walter Battiss "I Invented Myself", 2016.

"The copyright of reproductions is reserved by the artists, but the work of the author, which includes most of the photographs, may be used if acknowledgment is made."

Ref: GB/50104































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