The Mpondo women of this district wear their hair in bunches of fine waxed plaits on either side of their faces, with one thickish waxed plait straight down in the middle of the fore-head, and hanging below the nose or chin. Song for the Umngcutsho dance, with clapping
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
This gay refrain is typical of Luba women in festive mood. Dressed in their bright coloured Congo pr...
Traditional Thembu umngqungqo married women's song for girls initiation accompanied by clapping
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
Three young Amakwenkwe boys in most handsomely decorated and beaded clothes wound around them from t...
This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre colour...
Most of the women were married, wearing the beaded, tubular headring of the Mpondo married women. On...
This type of singing accompanies the Kwaya dance, a speciality of the Shangaan tribesmen from the lo...
"Be polite to everyone."Women song, injunctions to young women upon getting married. In Africa the w...
This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song t...
The girl who leads this song is a born singer of Gcaleka type songs for her contemporaries. The peop...
There is a belief that those who wear moustaches or beards are given to the practise of witchcraft. ...
This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song t...
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
"Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
This gay refrain is typical of Luba women in festive mood. Dressed in their bright coloured Congo pr...
Traditional Thembu umngqungqo married women's song for girls initiation accompanied by clapping
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
Three young Amakwenkwe boys in most handsomely decorated and beaded clothes wound around them from t...
This song was sung on a bright sunny afternoon by 20 Gcaleka women all dressed in their ochre colour...
Most of the women were married, wearing the beaded, tubular headring of the Mpondo married women. On...
This type of singing accompanies the Kwaya dance, a speciality of the Shangaan tribesmen from the lo...
"Be polite to everyone."Women song, injunctions to young women upon getting married. In Africa the w...
This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song t...
The girl who leads this song is a born singer of Gcaleka type songs for her contemporaries. The peop...
There is a belief that those who wear moustaches or beards are given to the practise of witchcraft. ...
This dance was performed by the married women standing in a circle. In the second part of the song t...
Xhosa women use Umngqokolo techniques with normal voices, performing traditional Xhosa music with cl...
"Black cloth may not be worn by a woman who is about to have a child, she may use any other coloured...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
This gay refrain is typical of Luba women in festive mood. Dressed in their bright coloured Congo pr...
Traditional Thembu umngqungqo married women's song for girls initiation accompanied by clapping