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Object Number
2001.29.138
Display Title
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas standing next to drawings made by children on a wall inside a hut
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Okwa May 21, 1955 / Paintings or Drawings / at Okwa Made inside / a mud hut. A strip / is painted on the wall / in white ? / the drawings are scratched / through the paint They / were made by a Bushman child / recently. More in formation [whole?] [?]"
Department
Photographic
Date
5/21/1955
Culture
- !Xóõ?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Botswana
/
Ghanzi
/
<County>
/
Okwa
Materials
Polaroid
Dimensions
Overall: 8.255 × 10.795 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Lorna Marshall
Donor
John Marshall
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