Image Number: APN146846

APN146846

Description: Abakhwetha - Xhosa boys who are in the process of undergoing initiation. Country: South Africa Creator: ILAM Archive Credit Notice: International Library of African Music / Rhodes University / african.pictures Pixel Dimensions X: 5326 Pixel Dimensions Y: 3843 Keywords:

• Xhosa men
• Xhosa youth
• Xhosa boys
• initiation
• rite of passage
• Ulwaluko
• circumcision
• initiation rite
• male initiation
• Xhosa
• Xhosa culture
• Xhosa tradition
• initiates
• Abakhwetha
• Abakweta
• abakweta (initiates-in-training)
• initiation
• men
• young men
• traditional dress
• traditional attire
• blanket
• sticks
• painted
• clay mask
• clay
• white clay
• traditional ceremony
• traditional culture
• traditional
• culture
• ILAM Photographic Collection
• International Library of African Music

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