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Object Number
2018.9.1
Display Title
Lorna Marshall research papers
Descriptions
Archival Collections/Series
Lorna Marshall research papers
Archival Scope and Content
This collection includes research material collected and produced in part by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall regarding the Marshall family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana and Angola to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are detailed itineraries; files organized by subject matter; chronological files; correspondence; notes by other scholars who accompanied the Marshalls on their expeditions, including Robert Dyson, J. Otis Brew, Charles Handley, Ernst Westphal, and Nicholas England; and notes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John Marshall. In addition, there are excerpts from notebooks kept by Lorna Marshall during the 1955 expedition and files on the 1959 and 1961 expeditions...For more information, please see finding aid.
Classification
- Paper
Department
Archival, Paper
Archives
Archival Collection
Date
1952 -1990
Artist
Lorna Marshall
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
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South Africa
Africa / Botswana
Africa / Namibia
Africa / Botswana
Africa / Namibia
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Provenance
Donor
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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