IDNO

P.7277.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "“Pygmy” of the Kalahari desert, 4 ft. 5 in. Round his ankles are dried sheaths of wild beans and holding wildebeeste’s [sic wildebeest’s] tail switch. ?Right hand mutilated?. Amputation commonly done in infancy when child sickly, partly for dysentery. Right hand for male, left for female, portion usually, of little of fourth finger removed. 1936" [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

S Africa; ?South Africa; ?Botswana; ?Namibia; Kalahari Desert

Cultural Affliation

San [historically Bushmen]

Named Person

Photographer

?Johnston, D.B.

Collector / Expedition

Date

1936

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionClarke Collection

Source

Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Photographer: Maybe Johnston is the photographer, and the photograph is taken in 1936.