1920's
Swazi Girls
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 84
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Young girls posing in the 1920's.
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1920's
Swazi Virgin
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 480
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Swazi society was heirarchically
arranged in age groups, this is a virgin by her clothing.
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1920's
Three Degrees of Westernisation
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 48
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Three Degrees of Westernisation.
Early missionaries confused Christianity and civilisation with westernisation.
They were unable to comprehend the wone without the other.
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1920's
Two Swazi Girls
Photographer: Unknown
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 93
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The same two girls also posed
clothed.
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1920's
Warrior King
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 482
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Sobhuza II, Ngwenyama or hereditary
King of Swaziland. This photograph is in the same album as his grandmother
Gwamile's abdication and might well be the same occasion.
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1920's
Women with pots
Photographer: Sidney Williams
Source: National Archives |
Photo No. 118
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Beer and water were kept in porous
clay pots - the evaporation through the clay cooled the contents.
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1920's/30's
Baptism
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 410
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The Rev. William Dawson founded
Florence Mission at Hluti for the Scandanavian Missionary Alliance, which was a
hellfire and brimstone fundamentalist organisation. Here Rev. Dawson is
practising total immersion baptism on a convert, recorded as "Tom".
Dawson was a gifted man, a fine photographer, keen astronomer and noted
lecturer.
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1920's/30's
Baptism
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 409
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The Rev. William Dawson founded
Florence Mission at Hluti for the Scandanavian Missionary Alliance, which was a
hellfire and brimstone fundamentalist organisation. Here Rev. Dawson is
practising total immersion baptism on a convert. Dawson was a gifted man, a
fine photographer, keen astronomer and noted lecturer.
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1920's/30's
Busy as Bees
Photographer: Rev. Dawson
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 465
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The carpentry workshop at Florence
Mission. They produced large numbers of church pews as well as cupboards,
window frames, etc. The original caption was "busy as bees".
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1920's/30's
Dawson Cattle Dip
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Dawson family |
Photo No. 413
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For over a hundred years, cattle have
been forced into swimming through tanks of poison to control ticks. Early tanks
often used arsenic, slightly friendlier poisons are used today. This photo was
probably taken in the 20's or 30's, but could be any time in the 20th
century.
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