IDNO

LS.72008.BUR

Description

Boulder with petroglyph of carved animal figure, possibly eland, at Half Way House.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Northern Cape; Kimberley; Half Way House

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford; or Burkitt, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The lantern slide was in wooden box formerly numbered 139 now numbered C318/.

Group: The cultural group who made these petroglyphs are the IXam, now an extinct group from the Kimberley regions of South Africa. [Source: Ethnologue Online 15th edition, [SW 17/10/2006]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 29/11/2006]