Kafir Collection

Kaffir Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Kaffir Woman, 1850. The Kaffir Woman...carries on her head a water-melon, which grows in the colony to a luxuriant size. Numbers of Kaffirs are employed as labourers; though the woman here portrayed

A Kaffir Kraal in the Transvaal, 1900. Creator: George Washington Wilson
A Kaffir Kraal in the Transvaal, 1900. From " South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. I", by Louis Creswicke. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1900]

Volunteers Meeting A Loyal Kaffir and his Family, c1880. Episode of the Xhosa Wars (also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, Kaffir Wars), from 1779 to 1879 in South Africa

The Caffre War: Natives attacking a convoy, 19th century. Eurocentric view of white settlers fighting the local population in South Africa

Boers and Kaffirs, Cape Colony, South Africa, 19th century. Artist: Pranishnikoff
Boers and Kaffirs, Cape Colony, South Africa, 19th century. Racist portrayal of Dutch settlers and Africans

Mongolian Races, 19th century. Examples of ethnic type: Circassian, Malay, Chinese, Caffre, Negro. Victorians were keen on putting people into racial categories, many of which are now deemed offensive

Kafir of the Bechuana, 1848. A man from what is now Botswana. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard

Kafir of the Amakosa, 1848. A man from the Amakosah people in what is now South Africa. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used

Kosah Kafir, 1848. A man from what is now South Africa. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere)

Jan Tzatzoe, Kafir of the Amakosah Tribe, 1848. Artist: J Bull
Jan Tzatzoe, Kafir of the Amakosah Tribe, 1848. A converted Christian chief, also known as Dyani Tshatshu, from what is now South Africa. Kafir, an offensive term, is no longer used

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