IDNO

P.56865.LCGC

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7275.ACH1: "Young Bushman watching the flight of some object. Note “pepper-corn” growth of hair. Wearing bandana of beads round head and across his chest and round left ankle are dried wild beans which rattle as he moves. Across back is a switch made from wildebeeste’s [sic wildebeest’s] tail. Beaded waistband holds small bag for ornaments. 1936." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

San [historically Bushmen]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Johnston, D. B.; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Date

1936

Collection Name

Clarke Collection

Source

Johnston, D. B.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56850 to P.56871. were found inside the brown envelope C268/1/1/ which was inside the first drawer of the green cabinet, now numbered C268/1/.
C268/ is the new number given to the entire cabinet which was formerly numbered as batch 144.

Photographer: Maybe Johnston is the photographer, and the photograph is taken in 1936. [SG 24/6/1998]

Related Image: A copy of this image was used by Dave Lewis in the construction of his ‘Zulu Warrior’ photographic composition, purchased by MAA in 2009. [JD 27/1/2010]