IDNO

LS.138814.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S. Africa. 43.B.14.13
Kgalagadi young man & two girls.
The young man has always very happy. Both girls were betrothed (though only 12 & 16 years old) and were to me married within 4 months of the date when this photograph was taken." [typed text, circa 1935]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7433.ACH1: "Kgalagadi man and two girls. Young man always very happy. Both girls are bethrothed in spite of being C.13 and 16 yrs, respectively, and were to be married in about 4 months’ time. Kikao Pan, Kalahari desert." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

S Africa; Botswana; Kalahari Desert; Kikao Pan [Kgalagadi]

Cultural Affliation

San [Bushmen]; Kgalagadi; Makgalagadi

Named Person

Photographer

Mogg, Joseph William (Archdeacon)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1915 - 1937

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: Annual Report of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology on the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology and its Library, 1937: "Mr. Clarke [L.C.G] has continued to shew his interest in the photographs and through his kindness an interesting series of Bushmen, photographed by Mr. J. W. Mogg, has been acquired........" page 2.

Photographer: MOGG, Joseph William (Director of the Kuruman Mission 1915-1928) Director of the Kuruman Mission until his departure to be the Archdeacon of Kimberley. Served the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, from 1915 to 1945. [Source: Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/docs/CPSAGuide.pdf