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Archival portrait of a young Sotho girl

Neville Jones1934

University of Pretoria Museums

University of Pretoria Museums
Pretoria, South Africa

An Archival photo of a Sotho girl at Mapungubwe taken by Neville Jones during the 1934 expedition. Neville Jones (1880-1954) was a British missionary and archaeologist. He was a leading pioneer in the Stone Age archaeology of Zimbabwe and later in 1936 became the keeper of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia and worked at Mapungubwe as an archaeologist in the 1930s. He was a keen photographer and many of the early photographs in the Mapungubwe Archive of communities and traditional leaders were taken by him.

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