Kaffir Kraal, Zimontos [historic title], 1890
Scope and Contents
Showing a wooden stockade with tightly packed thatched huts beyond and on the granite outcrop above. The exact location of Zimonto’s (Somoto’s) Kraal is not specified, but it presumably lay a short distance north of Fort Victoria. See Y3052B/8-9 for F.H. Surridge's photograph of the village, which he described in ‘Mashonaland and Matabeleland’ R.C.I. Proceedings, Vol XXII, 1890-1, 'Somoto's village, by the soft red rays of a tropical setting sun, was a picture not soon to be forgotten. In the distance one could dimly discern the forms of dark human beings, walking about uneasily upon the tops of the huge rocks upon which the village is standing ... the small huts of mushroom shape were dotted about upon the rocks wherever a site was available...' Photograph probably taken about August 20.
Dates
- Creation: 1890
Creator
- From the Fonds: Fry, William Ellerton, 1846-1930 (Person)
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Extent
1 photographic print(s) : photograph
Dimensions
195 x 146 mm.
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