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Three men playing a game, at Fritz Metzger's farm
Three men playing a game, at Fritz Metzger's farm
Object Number 2001.29.1
Display Title Three men playing a game, at Fritz Metzger's farm
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in ink on photograph (verso): "Metzger Farm / June 9, 1951 / Bechuana workers playing / a game - with four rows / of 15 holes each and two / stones in each hole to / begin with. You pick up stones in one hole and drop them in the next / holes - eventually piles / accumulate and / then you calculate how / many empty holes you / must put stones in to reach the next pile which allows / you to go one. Don't know / the object yet."
Department Photographic
Date 6/9/1951
Culture
  • Tswana
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Additional Geographic Terms Fritz Metzger's farm
Materials Polaroid
Dimensions Overall: 8.255 × 10.795 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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