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Hartmann family standing with Laurence Marshall at their farm west of Outjo, looking at a Polaroid photograph
Hartmann family standing with Laurence Marshall at their farm west of Outjo, looking at a Polaroid photograph
Object Number 2001.29.696
Display Title Hartmann family standing with Laurence Marshall at their farm west of Outjo, looking at a Polaroid photograph
Descriptions
Object Description Laurence Marshall photographing white settlers, 1950. The Marshalls sometimes visited white settlers in scattered townships throughout South West Africa. Settlers tended to have a complicated relationship with the Ju/'hoansi. Many early settlers simply wished to exterminate them; some employed them; and others embraced a nationalistic, romantic notion of helpless hunter-gatherers to justify confiscating their land. Photographer unknown.
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Culture
  • Colonial African
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Kunene
Additional Geographic Terms Near Outjo
Materials Slide, color
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 × 2.5 cm (1 3/8 × 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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