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Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30444
Display Title [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "11952-3 / Exp. III 61-8 / 6 / Another baobab, same area as 5 / Given good idea of that piece / of country: the grass covering / the accacias [acacias] their size and sparsness [sparseness], the flat horizon / This tree is near Gautsche Pan / There is an outcropping of / rock and through the rock are / underground water source. / The water hole of Gautscha - a / permanent water hole is / near this tree. Baobabs seem / to be twice as high as anything / else in the landscape. / Marshall"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for reproduction / copy no. / L. Marshall"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab trees (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30445 [Baobab tree]: Baobab trees (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30442 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30448.1 [Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.877 [Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Baobab tree, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30138 [No folder title]: Baobab tree, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Expedition, Trucks: Expedition Jeep parked at the base of a big baobab tree with names carved on it
2001.29.436 Expedition, Trucks: Expedition Jeep parked at the base of a big baobab tree with names carved on it
Gautscha
Baobab tree with no leaves
2001.29.375 Baobab tree with no leaves
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30442.2 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30448.2 [Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30451.1 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [Baobab tree]: Boy starting to climb a large baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30449.1 [Baobab tree]: Boy starting to climb a large baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Names on baobab trees": Names carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30370 "Names on baobab trees": Names carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha