Street Shot Herero Mother and Daughter )Omaruru Damaraland Namibia Africa

            The Herero tribe's now traditional costumes, are seen by anthropologists as a fascinating subversion of their former rulers' fashion, showing how the tribe survived a concerted effort by German colonialists to wipe them from the face of the earth.
The history of Herero clothing is extraordinary. Rhenish missionaries first introduced Victorian dress, which the tribe gradually accessorised by adding, for example, cow horn headdresses.
The first German colonists then arrived in 1892, and conflict with the indigenous Herero and Nama people began.
Between 1893 and 1903, the Herero and Nama peoples' land as well as their cattle were seized by militarily superior German forces who regarded them as subhuman.
Then in 1903, the Herero people learned that they were to be placed in reservations, leaving more room for colonists to own land and prosper. What followed is a tragedy of oppressive human nature: concentration camps, systematic annihilation of a tribe, slavery. When the German army was defeated by the South African in 1915, the Herero survivors were liberated the Herero men began not only dressing as much like their German oppressors.
Herero women also affected the styles and the airs and graces of the Christian missionary ladies who had come among them in the 1890s. As many as 8 dresses are worn beneath the outer dress.
The clothes the Herero choose to wear, both men and women, are a permanent reminder of the great scar gashed in the tribe's history when they came close to being exterminated.



   

Taken in: Namibia / Erongo / Omaruru (show map)

Taken on: August 21, 2017

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/5.6, 1/3200 sec, 135mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens:	Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	135mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	-1/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
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