Image Number: APN275276

APN275276

Title: Xhosa initiate Description: Xhosa initiate cloaked in a blanket. Country: South Africa Creator: David Goldblatt Credit Notice: David Goldblatt / South Photos / african.pictures Keywords:

• Xhosa initiates
• abakhwetha
• Xhosa men
• Xhosa
• men
• young men
• culture
• Xhosa tradition
• tradition
• traditional
• Ulwaluko
• circumcision
• initiation rite
• initiation
• male initiation
• rite of passage
• cloak
• blanket
• clay mask
• clay
• white clay
• ingceke
• ingxwala
• face paint
• David Goldblatt

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