Serowe (inhabited place)
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
A watering point at Serowe, 1960-07
203 x 155 mm. Showing villagers filling metal drums at a Serowe watering point with a bullock team pulling a large barrel of water in the background. The caption on the reverse reads 'Water is pumped from bore-holes - of which there are several in the village'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
General view of Serowe, 1960-07
203 x 157 mm. The caption on the reverse reads 'tribal capital of the Bamangwato. It is one of the four villages in the Protectorate with a population of more than 10,000. This photograph was taken from the Khama Memorial above Serowe'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Housing for clerks and other Government employees at Serowe, tribal capital of the Bamangwato Reserve, 1960-07
204 x 156 mm. Showing a row of small government houses with a family working on a vegetable patch in the foreground. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Inside Sashi Tannery, Serowe, 1963-08
201 x 156 mm. Showing a worker feeding a length of hide into machinery at Sashi Tannery.
Pupil nurses outside the Sekgoma Memorial Hospital, Serowe, 1963-08
201 x 156 mm. Showing three pupil nurses standing in front of the hospital entrance.
Resident court at Kgama's Kgotla, Serowe, Bech'd Protc, 1910 - 1911
86 x 86 mm. Showing a large group of Africans seated in the open square at Serowe for a 'Kgotla', or formal meeting of the village called by the headman. The figure addressing the meeting this meeting is probably Khama or (Kgama) III (circa 1830/7-1923), Chief of the Ngwato (Bamangwato from 1875 until his death. The figure is too far away to be identified with certainty.
Serowe - Bech. Protect, 1910 - 1911
140 x 83 mm. A view looking over the circular thatched huts of Serowe, the chief town of the Ngwato and first occupied by them in 1902 after the abandonment of Felepye.
The Council Chamber, Serowe, 1963-08
202 x 156 mm. Showing the small single storey council chamber at Serowe.
Women going to the pits for water, Serowe 1907, 1907
85 x 85 mm. Negative only.