IDNO

P.85437.BUR

Description

Detail of boulder with rock engraving at Halfway House site.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Northern Cape; near Kimberley

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

1927

Collection Name

Burkitt Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85436.BUR to P.85441.BUR were found inside negative box now numbered C139/29/ which was found inside wooden box numbered C139/.

A reproduction of this image was exhibited in Collected Sights in the section Africa with the descriptive label:
“Palaeolithic site that had yielded examples of rare flint arrowheads, strewn with boulders, some with engravings on them.” [Sudeshna Guha 27/11/02]

Bibliographical Reference: Burkitt. M. C. 1928. South Africa’s Past in Stone and Paint. London. Cambridge University Press.

Place: See reference to rock engraving at Halfway House in Burkitt 1928: 33,149.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 8/11/2006]