IDNO

P.7289.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "A phase in the “Dance of the Eland Bull”. Note leg rattles and wildebeest’s tail switches and the stalking of the prey attitude of two of the men. The women stand round singing and clapping hands. 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.

Photograph published in Bayly. C.A. 2004: The Birth of the Modern World (1780-1914), Blackwell, pp. 448. Captioned: “Dance of the Elland Bull: Kalahari “bushmen” (San or Ko).”