IDNO

LS.138820.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S. Africa. Bushman. 43.B.20. 44-8
Bushman Woman. Woman with skins containing ostrich
eggs filled with water, 30 in all & as an egg filled weighs from
2 1/2 to 2 3/4 lbs. in weight, you can guess what strength they have in their necks, and what they can endure. This woman is
taking them back to Khutse, 36 miles away.
(see also slides 7-9) [second manuscript in black ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7269.ACH1: Women with skins containing ostrich eggs filled with water, there are 30 of these each weighing from 2 1/2 to 2 1/4 lbs. to be carried to Khutse, 36 miles away! N.B. Strength of neck muscles and great endurance. Kikao Pan" [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