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"Names on baobab trees": Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
"Names on baobab trees": Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30379
Display Title "Names on baobab trees": Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Colonial African
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 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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"Names on baobab trees": Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up
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"Names on baobab trees": Name "Kipping" carved into the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
2001.29.24993 Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
2001.29.24994 Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
2001.29.24995 Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
2001.29.24996 Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
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Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
2001.29.24997 Name and date "Rush 10.13.1903" carved in the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (copy of negative 2001.29.14662)
Gautscha
Names on baobab trees: Names carved on the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
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