photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A1.163
- Description
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Excavation of burial site in an area of Stone Age industry. Skeleton exposed at base of excavation (4 foot deep). Braunholtz notes that ostrich eggshell beads were found around the wrists.
Medium: Black and white print.
- Production date
- 1929 (28th August)
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.18 centimetres
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Width: 9.50 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguer's comment: Size of album: 218 photographs.
Main themes of album: visits to archaeological sites, including Stone Age caves and rock art, to indigenous settlements in Northern Transvaal and Zimbabwe, to Johanesburg, Cape Town and Victoria Falls.
Circumstances: [BRA-] PIC DOC 01, and as attached in album.
Braunholtz went to South Africa in 1929 for a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. (B J Mack 24/11/1994)
Biography: d. 04/06/1963.
Keeper of the Ethnography Department of the British Museum, 1945-1953.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good condition.
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A1.163