IDNO

P.7269.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Women with skins containing ostrich eggs filled with water, there are 30 of these each weighing from 2 1/2 to 2 1/4 lbs. to be carried to Khutse, 36 miles away! N.B. Strength of neck muscles and great endurance. Kikao Pan." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

S Africa; Botswana; Kalahari Desert; Kikao Pan

Cultural Affliation

San [historically Bushmen]

Named Person

Photographer

Mogg, Joseph William [Archdeacon]

Collector / Expedition

Mogg, Joseph William (Archdeacon)

Date

circa 1915 - 1937

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Annual Report of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology on the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology and its Library, 1937: “Mr. Clarke [L.C.G] has continued to shew his interest in the photographs and through his kindness an interesting series of Bushmen, photographed by Mr. J. W. Mogg, has been acquired........” page 2.

Photographer: MOGG, Joseph William (Director of the Kuruman Mission 1915-1928) Director of the Kuruman Mission until his departure to be the Archdeacon of Kimberley. Served the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, from 1915 to 1945. [Source: Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/docs/CPSAGuide.pdf, JD 1/16/2013]