National Museum of Natural History
Photoportraits of the Himba: A Cattle Herding People of the Angolia-Namibia Borderland
October 4, 1976 – December 26, 1976
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Photoportraits of the Himba: A Cattle Herding People of the Angolia-Namibia Borderland Added
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View 30 color photographs taken by MNH African ethnologist, Dr. Gordon Gibson, during his 1960-73 fieldwork. A pastoral people, they retain many features that have disappeared from the culture of their more Westernized neighbors.