Object Listing

The Parliament Collection:
A Khoi woman walking with her baby on her back, a large bundle on her head and carrying a walking stick. She wears a red headscarf. A general landscape scene drawn lightly in the background. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A covered wagon with five sets of oxen moving to the viewer's left. In front is a man leading the oxen, the driver has a long whip. The background looks like Table Mountain, the back of Devil's Peak and part of Lion's Head. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
An African man holding up a small shaped shield and assegai in his left hand, and a small axe in his right. He wears an ostrich feather tied to the back of his head. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
An African woman holding a bow-like musical instrument. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A wagon with wooden sides and a high canopy. It is moving to the viewer's right, drawn by four pairs of horses. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
Woman wearing cloth tied around her lower body and a tobacco reed in her ear. Holds a long-handled axe (hoe) for agricultural work. In the back is possibly a bee-hive on stilts (check). (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
An African man with folded arms, three-quarter view. He wears a skin skirt and a head ring, and has a tobacco reed in his ear. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
An African woman facing the viewer. She wears a skirt and shaped top and carries a melon on her head. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A dancing Khoi woman with a pipe in her right hand and a bottle in her left. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A Matabele African man in traditional warrior dress, holding a large shield and a spear. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A San male dressed in a kaross and holding a bow, with many arrows in his hat and a quiver over his shoulder. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
Side full length view of a Khoi woman who is holding a bunch of bulbous plants. They could possibly be used for traditional medicine. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
Khoi man dressed in Western clothes with his hat, decorated with a ribbon, at a rakish angle. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
An inebriated Khoi man leaning against a wall with a wine bottle in his hand. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
Lion attacking an African man who is laying on his back on the ground. Standing over the lion is a second man with a spear, about to try to kill the lion. Two more men are looking on in horror. (Part of a book, see 5272) Sketches of some of the various classes and tribes enhabiting [sic] The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the interior of Southern Africa, with a brief Account Descriptive of the manners and customs of each; Night Attack, by a lion, on a Caffir [sic] Camp

The Parliament Collection:
A Bechuana warrior holding spear and shield in an attacking pose. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
A Bechuana man wearing wrapped light coloured blanket and holding spears. (Part of a book, see 5272)

The Parliament Collection:
42 lithographs to illustrate travels. With 4 exceptions (Plates 7 - frontpiece, 15, 33, 6 ) they are single figures showing a particular dress style or action. Sketches of some of the various classes and tribes enhabiting [sic] The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the interior of Southern Africa, with a brief Account Descriptive of the manners and customs of each.; Cape of Good HopeSketches of Tribes, 1851. (In Mendelssohn's Bibliography)

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a folder, see 5287

The Parliament Collection:
6 Photograph with titles either attached on labels, part of image or hand-written below image. Presented in a folder that opens to show a sequence of locations in the New Houses of Parliament in 1885

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The Parliament Collection:
Part of a book, see 5320

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a book, see 5320

The Parliament Collection:
Part of a book, see 5320