IDNO

N.11103.MVR

Description

Documentary photograph of iron? tools from Inyanga, an Iron Age archaeological site in Zimbabwe. [JD 11/8/2009]

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Nyanga [Rhodesia; ?Inyanga]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Randall-MacIver, David (MacIver, Randall David)

Date

Collection Name

MacIver Collection

Source

Randall-MacIver, David

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The negative comes from a cardboard box numbered C68/2/ which has the label of "The Imperial Dry Plate Company Ltd., London". This was in a wooden box formerly numbered 170, now re-numbered C68/.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Asia; ?Far East; ?Africa", but the negative is annotated as ‘Inyanga’, an archaeological Iron Age site in Zimbabwe. [Source: The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, JD 11/8/2009]

Bibliographical Reference: Arthur Evans, J. W. Gregory, Dr. Keane, R. N. Hall, Harry Johnston, Mr. Selous, C. H. Read, H. Balfour, Dr. Haddon, D. G. Hogarth, J. L. Myres, L. Doncaster, Randall MacIver, Thomas Holdich and H. W. Feilden. ‘The Rhodesia Ruins: Their Probable Origin and Significance: Discussion’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Apr., 1906), pp. 336-347
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
(http://www.jstor.org/stable/1776234) [JD 11/8/2009]