IDNO

P.56922.ACH2

Description

Head and shoulders profile portrait of “Klaas Stoffel (Bushman) Age 22”.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Cape Town

Cultural Affliation

|Xam [historically San; Bushmen]

Named Person

Klaas Stoffel

Photographer

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

P.56907.ACH2 to P.56928.ACH2 were found inside the envelope now numbered C268/1/5/ which was inside C268/1/, or the first drawer of the entire green cabinet formerly numbered batch 144 and now numbered C268/.

P.56921.ACH2 and P.56922.ACH2 are mounted on a card belonging to the photograph studio.

Named Person: "|a!kunta or Klaas Stoffel was Bleek and Lloyd’s first |xam contributor who came to Mowbray on 29th August 1870 and stayed until October 1873. He originally came from an area called the ‘Strondbergen’ and was what ||kabbo called a Ss’wa ka !kui or ‘Flat Bushman’ (meaning he belonged to a group of |xam who lived on the plains). Bleek refers to |a!kunta as a ‘boy’ in his first report of 1873 though his age is recorded as 20 years in the Breakwater Prison records." [Source: THE DIGITAL BLEEK AND LLOYD, http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/index.html, JD 12/13/2012]

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]