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[No folder title]: Mangetti forest (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Mangetti forest (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30247
Display Title [No folder title]: Mangetti forest (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "(1952-3) Exp III 130-6 / 8 / Mangetti trees / They grow on waterless white / sand dunes - in little / forsets [forests] / They are an important food / supply of the !Kung / Bushmen They sometime[s] / have big hollows in their / trunks due to fire or age / which old many gallons / of water for a time after the / rains. The Bushmen can / go at that time, having this water / at their disposal, to gather nuts"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Mangetti Forest
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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