Bantu beer cartons outside bottle store
- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.11-B1.11.14
- Item
- 1967
Friday afternoon outside the bottle store, after most of crowd have left.
Bantu beer cartons outside bottle store
Friday afternoon outside the bottle store, after most of crowd have left.
Drummer intones hymn and congregation takes it up with gusto, swaying bodies as they sing. Soon they are carried away with emotion and begin dancing in rhythm with the drum.
Another woman is led from baptismal rite. Part of a series of 3 photographs, see items B1.12.6 & B1.12.7
This Zionist pastor - head of a tiny splinter church - is preaching to his entire flock in outdoor chapel.
Zionist pilgrims crowd street to cheer Bishop Lekganyane (in naval uniform) as he leads procession through Moria, the Mecca of his church.
They inspect one result of their support: the bishop's newly-acquired mobile home.
A woman sips soda and eats dry bread after her trek to Moria. She is one of 50,000 who come to three-day festival.
Catholic missionary in Mamelodi
Children trot after Catholic missionary on his rounds in Mamelodi.
Initiation ceremony of girl diviner
Initiation ceremony of girl diviner. She drinks blood f sacrificial goat as part of purification rite t prepare her for possession by ancestral spirit.
Diviner studies bones to see what spirit desires for the initiate.