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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.
Department
Archival, Paper
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
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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