!Khwa ttu is collaborating with the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford in the UK. These images are from their vast photographic collection. Maybe you can help us to find out more about those photos taken by Dorothea Bleek in the 1920s.
Do you recognise this game?
Does it have a name?
How does it work?
Is it still played?
Five boys sitting in a line with their legs interlocked’. Naro. Sandfontein, Namibia 1921-1922. Photograph by Dorothea Bleek. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK. Photograph Collection (2005.51.671)
A group of children sitting on the ground in a line with their legs interlocked’. Naro. Sandfontein, Namibia, 1921-1922.
Photograph by Dorothea Bleek. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK. Photograph Collection (2005.51.672)
Since 1999 !Khwa ttu has provided education, jobs and support to the San – Africa’s First People. The !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre and Digital Archive is rooted in cultural restitution. Our website provides a platform for San to tell our story in our own ways and to become the cultural custodians, researchers and academics of the future.
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