IDNO

P.56924.ACH2

Description

Full length profile portrait of “Apollos Stephani (Damara) Age 25”. [JD 27/1/2010]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Namibia; Cape Town; Breakwater Jail

Cultural Affliation

Nama [historically Damara]

Named Person

Apollos Stephani

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

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.56923.ACH2 and P.56924.ACH2 are mounted on a card belonging to the photograph studio.

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]

Cultural Group: Damara, now known as Nama, are a cultural group predominantly from Namibia, but also from South Africa and Botswana. The Group and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 27/1/2010]