IDNO

P.7238.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Coos Toontjes, Bushman, aged 52 front and side views." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

S Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Cape Town; Breakwater Jail

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Coos Toontji (Coos Toontjes)

Photographer

Lawrence and Selkirk; Barnard, Samuel Baylis

Collector / Expedition

Bleek, Wilhelm [Photo Commissioner]; Huxley, Thomas Henry (Prof.) [Instructor of Anthropometric photography method]

Date

November 1870 - December 1871

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Collector / Expedition: This image is part of a series of photographs taken according to Huxley’s system at Breakwater Jail, Cape Town, 1871. The photographs were taken by Lawrence and Selkirk, and Samuel Bayliss Barnard. [Source: See Edwards, Elizabeth, 2001. Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums (Berg, Oxfrod) Chapter 6. JD 27/1/2010]

Bibliographical Reference: Photographs and body marks: Wilhelm Bleek’s Breakwater project, Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1871, by Andrew Bank, History Dept., UWC, www.uwc.ac.za/usrfiles/importcms/...5269.../AndrewBank.doc, JD 12/10/2012]