IDNO

LS.138832.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S. Africa. 43.H.3. Ova Herero. XLIV. AF.V.16.B.
S. Bantu. I [script written in another hand in red ink BD 23/08/2017]
OmuHerero. Damara [male symbol]. head. front & side." [typed text, circa 1935]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.7328.ACH1: "Damara Ovaherero, head, front and side." [typed text, circa 1935]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Herero; Ovaherero; Omuherero; Damara [historically Hottentot]

Named Person

Photographer

None

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]