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Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa by Barbara Tyrrell is a richly illustrated, deeply researched work that captures the diverse tribal cultures and especially the traditional dress of southern Africa’s indigenous peoples.
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Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa by Barbara Tyrrell (1968, Books of Africa) is a richly illustrated and deeply researched work that captures the diverse tribal cultures, customs, migrations, and especially the traditional dress of southern Africa’s indigenous peoples. This first edition hardback spans about 206 pages, with 96 full-colour plates, 76 line drawings, and includes maps on the endpapers.
Tyrrell’s artistry is matched by her ethnographic sensitivity: she travelled extensively—often alone—over many years recording intricate costume details, beadwork, ornamentation, and the symbolism behind them. Presented in a sizeable quarto format with pictorial cloth boards (and usually a dust jacket), the volume mixes vivid visual documentation with explanatory narrative on tribal identity, ornament, social customs and how traditions have been shifting.
For scholars, collectors of Africana, and anyone fascinated by Africa’s folkways, it remains a landmark volume—both beautiful and authoritative.
