Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Zulu women drinking Zafir beer Kimberley, Africa
ca. 1970
Africa; South Africa
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Original caption reads, "Zulu Women Drinking Zafir Beer, Kimberley, Africa. Kimberley is the center of the diamond fields in Cape Colony, formerly under Boer rule and recently ceded to England after a brave but hopeless defense. The women are seen drinking a native beer out of a gourd, called Colobash, which, when fully grown, is usually cut in two, dried and used as a drinking cup.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 41: South Africa (SA)
- Catalog date
- ca. 1970
- Recorded places
- Africa; South Africa
- Recorded subjects
- Portrait photography
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (col., 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SA-20-13
Collection: African Postcard Collection