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Object Number
58-43-00/1.6.2
Display Title
1952-53 records, possibly from J. O. Brew, including letters dating 12/13/1952-11/12/1953
Descriptions
Archival Collections/Series
Southwest Africa Expeditions records > Records from accession file 58-43 > Expedition records by year
Archival Scope and Content
Of special interest are letters to Peabody Museum Director J.O. Brew from Southwest Africa from Lorna, Laurence, and Elizabeth Marshall with discussion of kinship, social relations, Gautscha site, Robert Gardner's take on film and anthropology, and Porteus Maze and Rorschach tests. There are also letters to and from J.O. Brew regarding films, music, medicine, and plants. Additional correspondence includes a letter from Robert Gardner to Laurence, a letter to Anneliese Scherz about developing and printing photographs, and a letter permitting reproduction of expedition images on postage stamps. Also of note is the "Interim Report to the Bushman Commission...on the study of the health and nutrition of the Bushmen." This material was removed from accession file 58-43F.
Department
Archival, Paper
Archives
Archival Collection - Folder
Archival Box, Folder
Box 4, Folder 12
Archival Inventory
letters
4/26/52 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew (Gautscha)
return to Gautscha, hunt, kinship terms for father's father and mother's mother
12/13/52 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew (Windhoek)
plan to move to Cigarette after all Ju/'hoansi had flu
2/23/53 Elizabeth Marshall to J.O. Brew
field notes
Rorschach tests, Porteus Maze tests: scores, value, etc.
2/27/53 Lorna Marshall to Lauriston Ward (Chol'ana) (3 copies)
discussion of kinship terms
2/27/53 Laurence Marshall to J.O. Brew (Chol'ana)
proposed filming of "power of medicine" ceremony
Harvard re film study
personal matters
2/16/53, 3/5/53 J.O. Brew to Jacob Fine, MD
payment for medicines
medical discussion re Laurence Marshall
2/3/53 Jacob Fine, MD to J.O. Brew
medical discussion re Laurence Marshall
3/20/53 David Schneider to J.O. Brew
Yir Yorunt naming as possible explanation of Ju/'hoansi naming
bilateral or multilateral structure of relationships
3/20/53 CKM Kluckhohn to J.O. Brew
re Rorschach tests
3/24/53 J.O. Brew to Lorna Marshall
re letter from David Schneider
3/24/53 J.O. Brew to Elizabeth Marshall
personal
Rorschach tests
3/26/53 Laurence Marshall to J.O. Brew
use of film in anthropology
4/1/53 Evon Vogt to J.O. Brew
re Rorschach and Porteus maze
4/8/53 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew and Lauriston Ward (Chol'ana)
description of woman attacking co-wife
personal matters
4/16/53 Robert Gardner to Laurence Marshall
re film and anthropology
4/24/53 J.O. Brew to Laurence Marshall
personal gossip especially re Smithsonian
5/13/53 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew (Gautscha)
discussion of "gu!na" vs "tsu" problem
discussion of what child study to do
act of aggression between husband and wife
5/18/53 R.H. Compton (National Botanic Garden, SA) to Laurence Marshall
payment for Brian Maguire
6/9/53 Laurence Marshall to R.H. Compton
payment for Brian Maguire
6/29/53 Laurence Marshall to Anneliese Scherz
letter of understanding re photographs taken by Anneliese Scherz
11/10/53 J.O. Brew to C. Daryll Forde
re research ethnographer to edit films
11/13/53 C. Daryll Forde to J.O. Brew
re research ethnographer to edit films
12/1/53 Laurence Marshall to Alan Merriam
re tapes of music
3/11/53 Alan Merriam to Laurence Marshall
re tapes of music
reports
"Interim Report to the Bushman Commission...on the Study of the Health
and Nutrition of the Bushmen of the Okavango Territory"
telegrams
Laurence Marshall to Elizabeth Marshall re receipt of kinship papers
notes
re permission to reproduce pictures for stamps
Date
4/6/1952-12/1/1953
Artist
Dr. Evon Z. Vogt, Jr.
Artist
Dr. Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn
Artist
Lorna Marshall
Artist
Laurence Marshall
Artist
Prof. Daryll Forde
Artist
Robert G. Gardner
Artist
Dr. John Otis Brew
Artist
David M. Schneider
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
Africa / South Africa
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge
Africa / South Africa
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge
Materials
Paper , Ink , Pencil
Quantity
1
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