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© President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Object Number 58-43-00/1.7.4
Display Title Lauriston Ward
Descriptions
Archival Collections/Series Southwest Africa Expeditions records > Records from accession file 58-43 > Subject files
Archival Scope and Content Corresondence highights include: expedition agreement letter from J.O. Brew to Laurence Marshall, correspondence from South African officials re 1951 expedition, correspondence to/from the Marshalls, Ward, and Brew during 1952-53 and 1955 expeditions, and field observations. There are also news clippings, map sketches, Robert Dyson's reports on 1951 expedition, and notes from 1/15/62 "conference" of the Marshalls, Dyson, Brew, and Ward. This material was removed from accession file 58-43G.
Archives Archival Collection - Folder
Archival Box, Folder Box 4, Folder 16
Archival Inventory
Newspaper clipping letters 3/2/51 J.O. Brew to Laurence Marshall Marshall's acceptance to lead 1951 expedition goals of expedition inclusion of Robert Dyson and Lauriston Ward advisory committee on expedition 4/27/51 AJH Goodwin to J.O. Brew offer to help Marshall 4/30/51 C.van Reit Lowe to J.O. Brew offer to help Marshall expedition 6/7/51 Millicent C. McIntosh to Lauriston Ward re Carey McIntosh 9/6/51 (Lauriston Ward?) to J.O. Brew (2 copies) Robert Dyson report letters from Lorna Marshall 7/14/52 Lorna Marshall to Lauriston Ward update on plans thoughts on expedition 7/25/52 (Lauriston Ward?) to Lorna Marshall gossip re Cambridge, Archeological Society, etc. 8/31/52 Lauriston Ward to Lorna Marshall personal gossip 8/31/52 Lauriston Ward to J.O. Brew personal 10/1/52 Laurence Marshall to Lauriston Ward John Marshall and Draft Board John Marshall's work-photography Lorna Marshall's work-kinship and genealogies Charlie Handley's work-Smithsonian naturalist 11/4/52 Lauriston Ward to Laurence Marshall re John Marshall and Draft Board personal gossip 2/23/53 Elizabeth Marshall to ______ re Rorschach and Porteus Maze tests on "Bushmen" "Bushman" intelligence 2/27/53 Lorna Marshall to Lauriston Ward travel plans Elizabeth Marshall's work kinship-naming discussion 3/20/53 Lauriston Ward to Lorna Marshall personal comments on name relationship, kinship 4/26/53 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew move to Gautscha John Marshall on hunts interpreters kinship terms 7/29/53 Lauriston Ward to Lorna Marshall personal re return home Robert Dyson 5/?/55 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew move to Bechuanaland difficulty in knowing "Bushmen" quickly other studies inaccurate rareness of Gautscha experience more than one "Bushman" language 5/19/55 Lauriston Ward to Lorna Marshall personal gossip 6/11/55 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew move to Ghanzi ll Ganakwe system, kinship 6/11/55 Laurence Marshall to J.O. Brew L.F. Maingard leaves expedition arrival of Robert Storry and John Marshall 8/1/55 Lorna Marshall to J.O. Brew at Ghanzi, leaving for Gautscha end of "Bushman" life within 2-3 years work with l Gikwe people songs of Onkwane 8/55 John Marshall to J.O. Brew "Bushman" films-technique "Bushmen" working on farms 8/29/57 Lauriston Ward to Laurence Marshall Cipriani photos undated Lorna Marshall to Lauriston Ward dinner invitation undated postcard to Lauriston Ward from Robert Dyson, Laurence Marshall, etc maps map of Africa with route marked 2 hand drawn maps map of Africa "Bushman Groups from Sketch furnished to LKM by Walter Battis, Pretoria, Union of South Africa" newspaper 3/29/58 "Harvard Crimson" review of "The Hunters" film magazines 2/3/47 "Life" "The Bushmen" documents "Nostalgia for Cambridge in the Kallahari (sic) Desert": "to Lorna and Laurence May 24, 1952"- songs 5/7/51 Robert Dyson to J.O. Brew description of meetings in Jo'burg plans for expedition- location Robert Dyson, Field Reports I - VII, 5/11/51-9/19/51 "SWA Expedition- Informal summary of results of conference at Beach Road, January 15, 1952 (4 Marshalls, Brew, Dyson and Ward)" (1 typed, 1 handwritten) notes handwritten list of expedition members, undated handwritten "Branches of Technology" handwritten "Joe Rideout" with attached business card of Frank M. Setzler
Date 2/3/1947-8/26/1960
Artist Lorna Marshall
Artist Robert H. Pfeiffer
Artist Dr. John Otis Brew
Artist Robert H. Dyson Jr.
Artist The Harvard Crimson
Artist Time-Life
Artist Laurence Marshall
Artist Lauriston Ward
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Africa / South Africa
Africa / Botswana
North America / United States / New York / <County> / New York City
North America / United States / Massachusetts
Quantity 1

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40046/400461300.pdf
51-60-00/1.2 Letters and memoranda
40068/400681000.pdf
58-43-00/1.6.1 1951 Expedition records and 1952 Expedition preparation records
Cambridge
Image Not Available for Lorna Marshall research papers
2018.9.1 Lorna Marshall research papers
Paper
South Africa
Botswana
Namibia
40058/400580400.pdf
58-43-00/1.3.2 1955 records, possibly from J.O. Brew, including letters dating 8/1/1955-11/28/1955
Namibia
Botswana
New Haven
New York
Washington
Boston
Cambridge
40068/400681100.pdf
58-43-00/1.6.2 1952-53 records, possibly from J. O. Brew, including letters dating 12/13/1952-11/12/1953
Cambridge
Namibia
South Africa
40058/400580200.pdf
58-43-00/1.3.1 1955 Expedition, records possibly from J.O. Brew, including letters dating 1/25/55-7/29/55
Sussex
Namibia
New York
London
Worcester
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Washington
Boston
Cambridge
40068/400680000.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.4 1958 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/8/58-11/6/58
Johannesburg
Namibia
Cambridge
Washington
40068/400680300.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.7 CBS-TV episode of “Adventure”
New York
Cambridge
40067/400671700.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.3 1957-58 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/10/57-11/27/57
Angola
Johannesburg
Washington
Cambridge
Windhoek
40068/400680500.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.9 Recordings: Gilbert Rouget, Paul Collaer, Folkways
Paris
New York
Cambridge
Brussels
40069/400690100.pdf
58-43-00/1.7.3 "Scientific American"
New York City
Cambridge
40057/400570600.pdf
58-43-00/1.2.1 1955 Expedition, records possibly from J.O. Brew
Cambridge
Boston
Alabama
Windhoek
New Mexico