IDNO

P.85472.BUR

Description

Two diamond diggers wearing European style clothing and hats standing on the edge of an alluvial mining site with two men behind digging in the rocks and gravel below.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Northern Cape; ?Kimberley; Vaal River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Member of Burkitt expedition team

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

June 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85470.BUR to P.85482.BUR were found inside negative box now numbered C139/29/ which was found inside wooden box numbered C139/.

Geographical Information: Alluvial diamonds are found in the stream bed or river bed sand and gravel [Source: www.amnh.org/exhibitions/diamonds/alluvial.html [SW 11/12/2006].

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 9/11/2006]