| Fry & Co. (Durban) An upper body portrait of two Zulu medicine men or iziNyanga (sing. iNyanga) wearing numerous ritual items about their bodies and with their hair dressed, both holding clubs. 1865 (ca) Carte de visite Pitt Rivers Museum 1998.67.4 LL/113150 Research Notes
Extract from note in RDF by Sandra Klopper (then History of Art Dept, University of Cape Town) 7 Sept 1995 - "Spring...was an inn keeper in Durban who seems to have died a destitute alcoholic in 1878. His will, which is not at all helpful for anyone interested in the album, is in the Natal Archive Depot in Pietermaritzburg" [CM 21/07/2006]
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