Picture No | 10218181 |
Date | 1897 |
Description | A Witch Doctor and his bride. |
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The Witch Doctor pictured is from the Mashlangan tribe, inhabiting the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal Republic. He had claimed to have used his power to rid the plague of locusts that devastated thousands of square miles of grassland in South Africa.
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Source | The Sketch. 1897, By T. S Thomson |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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