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![[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/738676/preview)
Object Number
2001.29.30292
Display Title
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in red on photograph (verso): "Kung men digging for poison[crossed out: ed] grubs."; written in pencil on photograph (verso): "with which / they poison their arrows / X-4 / The beetle larvae are Polyclada / flexuosa Baly. Se / Charles Koch South African / Biological Society / [Plamphtel [Pamphlet] No 20. 1958 / pp. 49-54. Larvae are found about / two feet underground. Man in foreground / holds one. The tree the caterpillars feed on is Marula / they drop down, bury themselves in ground and larvae form. / Shows digging stick - type comming [?] / used by men and women"; stamped on photograph (verso): "For restricted use / [crossed out: not for publication / copy no. / L. Marshall" and "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department
Photographic
Date
1952-1953
Artist
Anneliese Scherz
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/
Gautscha
Materials
Print, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 25.4001 × 17.78 cm (10 × 7 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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