IDNO

P.48919.ACH2

Description

“Group of Bushmen.
1. Marcus (4633) Age 26 (?).
2. Soopie (4929) Age 26.
3. Oud Toontje (4649) Age 72.
4. Lellerbay (4642) Age 22.
5. Kurt Nels (4637) Age 34.
6. Koos Pfeitje (4642) Age 22.
7. Nijn (Jacob Nel) (4624) Age 52.
8. Klaas (4639) Age 28.
9. Coos Toontji (4638) Age 52.
10. Adam Fix (4637) Age 67”

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Cape Town; Breakwater Jail

Cultural Affliation

|Xam [historically San; Bushmen]

Named Person

Marcus; Soopie; Oud Toontje; Lellerbay; Kurt Nels; Koos Pfeitje; Nijn; Klaas; Coos Toontji; Adam Fix

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

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in envelope now marked C157/2/4/. This envelope was found in drawer 2 of the green cabinet. The entire cabinet was previously numbered as “batch 143” and is now re-numbered C157/ by the transcriber.

The cover page (proof copy) of a book “Specimens of Bushman Folklore” collected by the Late W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd. Published by George Allen and company, London, and two pages of photographs annotated in Haddon’s handwriting- “Stow- the native Races of S. Africa” were found with the set. See archive reference.

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]