IDNO

LS.138830.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: S. Africa. 43.H.1. Hottentot. XLIII. Hott:1.
AF.V.15.A.
(Colonial) Hottentot [male symbol]. head. front & side.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7307.ACH1: Colonial Hottentot, front and side.

Place

S Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Cape Town [Breakwater Jail]

Cultural Affliation

Xhoi Xhoi [historically Khoikhoi; Hottentot]

Named Person

Photographer

Lawrence and Selkirk; Barnard, Samuel Baylis

Collector / Expedition

Bleek, Wilhelm [Photo Commissioner]; Huxley, Thomas Henry (Prof.) [Instructor of Anthropometric photography method]

Date

November 1870 - December 1871

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Collector / Expedition: This image is part of a series of photographs taken according to Huxley’s system at Breakwater Jail, Cape Town, 1871. The photographs were taken by Lawrence and Selkirk, and Samuel Bayliss Barnard. [Source: See Edwards, Elizabeth, 2001. Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums (Berg, Oxford) Chapter 6. JD 27/1/2010]

Bibliographical Reference: Photographs and body marks: Wilhelm Bleek’s Breakwater project, Nov. 1870 to Dec. 1871, by Andrew Bank, History Dept., UWC, www.uwc.ac.za/usrfiles/importcms/...5269.../AndrewBank.doc, JD 12/10/2012]