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© President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Object Number 971-2-00/2
Display Title Southwest Africa Expedition records > John Yellen's Collection records
Descriptions
Archival Scope and Content Contains the correspondence and documents pertaining to John Yellen's donation of objects from the Kalahari to the Peabody Museum. These materials were removed from accession file 971-2.
Archives Archival Collection
Archival Inventory
documents 8/20/71 original shipping documents 10/12/71 "Initial inventory of crate from J. Yellen, Botswana"
Date 8/20/1971-10/12/1971
Artist Laurence Marshall
Artist Lorna Marshall
Culture
  • Southern African peoples
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge
Materials Paper , Ink
Provenance
Provenance Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Provenance Dr. John Otis Brew

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40057/400570600.pdf
58-43-00/1.2.1 1955 Expedition, records possibly from J.O. Brew
Alabama
Windhoek
New Mexico
Cambridge
Boston
40067/400671500.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.1 1956 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/19/1956-9/1/1956
Namibia
London
Angola
Cambridge
40067/400671600.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.2 1956 Expedition records, including letters dating 9/25/56-11/21/56
Namibia
Boston
Cambridge
40068/400681000.pdf
58-43-00/1.6.1 1951 Expedition records and 1952 Expedition preparation records
Cambridge
40067/400671700.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.3 1957-58 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/10/57-11/27/57
Angola
Johannesburg
Washington
Cambridge
Windhoek
40068/400680000.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.4 1958 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/8/58-11/6/58
Washington
Johannesburg
Namibia
Cambridge
40058/400580400.pdf
58-43-00/1.3.2 1955 records, possibly from J.O. Brew, including letters dating 8/1/1955-11/28/1955
Namibia
Botswana
New Haven
New York
Washington
Boston
Cambridge
40058/400580200.pdf
58-43-00/1.3.1 1955 Expedition, records possibly from J.O. Brew, including letters dating 1/25/55-7/29/55
Sussex
Namibia
New York
London
Worcester
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Washington
Boston
Cambridge
40046/400461500.pdf
56-57-00/1.2.1 Expense records
Africa
40068/400681100.pdf
58-43-00/1.6.2 1952-53 records, possibly from J. O. Brew, including letters dating 12/13/1952-11/12/1953
Cambridge
Namibia
South Africa
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51-60-00 Southwest Africa Expeditions records > 1951 Expedition records removed from accession file 51-60
40068/400680100.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.5 1959 Expedition records, including letters dating 4/3/59-7/14/59
Cambridge
Namibia
Washington