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Zulu temple at Maryloa[...?], Zululand, Africa – Vintage Wall Art

Zulu temple at Maryloa[...?], Zululand, Africa, [between 1900 and 1970] — historic photograph
Zulu temple at Maryloa[...?], Zululand, Africa, [between 1900 and 1970]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Zulu temple at Maryloa[...?], Zululand, Africa comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The record gives the place as "Maryloa[...?]" in Zululand, a name the cataloguers themselves could not confirm, so the exact location remains uncertain. Zululand covers the northern part of what is now KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, a region long central to Zulu political and cultural life and later shaped by British colonial rule. Photographs captioned "temple" from this period often described religious or ceremonial structures in terms borrowed from outside traditions, so the label tells us as much about how the picture was framed as about the building. The record dates the print only to a span between 1900 and 1970.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1970]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1970.
NotesNo. 3249
SubjectsTemples--South Africa--Zululand--1900-1970.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,117 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165050

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