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Unidentified photographer
Cetshwayo (1826-1884)
1879
Albumen print
14.5 x 9.6 cm (image)
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2501213
LL/93100
Photograph of Cetshwayo sitting on a wooden chair beneath a tree. He is looking slightly to the right and his hands are clasped together. There is a tartan blanket wrapped around him and he has an isicoco, a band of hair and grass woven onto the heads of married Zulu men. Cetshwayo was the King of the Zulu Kingdom at the time of the Anglo-Zulu War (1879). This photograph was probably taken at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, where he was exiled following the Zulu defeat.
From the collection of Queen Victoria
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