IDNO

LS.138817.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S. Africa. Bushman. 43.B.17. 44.1
Bushman Girl.
The little tortoise shells are used as spoons. The two long whitish things under them are knives used for cutting ?melons melons such as makapane and tsama. They are made from the rib of a giraffe." [typed text, circa 1935]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7263.ACH1: Girl. The tortoise shells are used as spoons, the little white things under them are knives made from the rib of a giraffe and used for cutting melons such as makapane and tsama. Kikao Pan (c. 150 m. in the Kalahari des.)." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

S Africa; Botswana; Kalahari Desert; Kikao Pan

Cultural Affliation

San [Bushmen]

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