A tribal capital in Bechuanaland, Serowe lies in a valley beneath the rocky hilltop where Ruth [Williams] and Seretse Khama sit. Straggling over five miles of thorn country, it is one of the largest native s in the southern part of Africa...

A tribal capital in Bechuanaland, Serowe lies in a valley beneath the rocky hilltop where Ruth [Williams] and Seretse Khama sit. Straggling over five miles of thorn country, it is one of the largest native s in the southern part of Africa...

Photograph

Margaret Bourke-White

Maker
American, 1904–1971

A tribal capital in Bechuanaland, Serowe lies in a valley beneath the rocky hilltop where Ruth [Williams] and Seretse Khama sit. Straggling over five miles of thorn country, it is one of the largest native s in the southern part of Africa...

ca. 1950
Gelatin silver print
49.2 x 39.2 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "LIFE Magazine ___ Copyright Time Inc."
"Reproduction Not Permitted"
(in ink) "White Queen" "Bourke-White"
(in pencil) "14" "D"
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