The uMcwasho Ceremony

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Old women collecting strings of beads from the “uMcwasho” uniform tassels that girls have ritually discarded in Lobamba, the village of the Queen Mother at the start of the uMcwasho Ceremony.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Aug 23, 1971
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