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Subject: [Leica] A couple of Q2 images from Lesotho
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:30:52 -0800
References: <9f32d1065b568f779efab71a0af7c75a@reid.org>

One more thing: the green fabric that the dancing women are wearing is 
called shweshwe. While shweshwe is universal among the Sotho and Xhosa, 
that particular green print is the received material for formal dress in 
Lesotho. The US contingent (bride's people) bought a bolt of green 
shweshwe and incorporated it into their own clothing. The train of the 
bride's gown was Lesotho green shweshwe, and all of the bride's cousins 
(male and female) had at least a patch of it in dresses, neckties, 
chokers, or armbands. The bride's grandmother (my mother) made a purse 
of shweshwe.

On 2019-12-30 10:08 pm, Brian Reid wrote:
> I'm in Johannesburg on my way home from a wedding in Lesotho. Here's
> one image of the 2000 or so that I got (most of them of the wedding;
> I'm just not generally a landscape photographer). I'm standing at the
> spot where the wedding took place, looking Northeast into the Maloti
> mountains of Ts'ehlanyane National Park. Here's a reduced-size JPG:
> 
> http://reid.org/~brian/images/L1011813sm.jpg
> 
> and here is a JPG of the full 49 megapixels from the Q2:
> 
> http://reid.org/~brian/images/L1011813.jpg
> 
> Some of the wedding guests got bored waiting for the ceremony to start
> (nothing in this part of Africa starts on time) so they got up to sing
> and dance:
> 
> http://reid.org/~brian/images/L1011787a.jpg
> 
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