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Miss Maria Wilman

Also known as: Miss Maria Wilman; primary name: Wilman, Maria
Details: individual; Female
Life dates: 1867-1957
Biography: Born in Cape Town, she read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and on her return to South Africa was employed in the Geological Survey at Cape Town. Having returned to Cambridge to study botany, she then worked L.Péringuey in Cape Town before helping to found the McGregor Museum in Kimberley in 1908. She was its first Director and held this position until her retirement in 1946. She carried out research in botany and geology, as well as archaeology, travelling into the Kalahari with Dorothea Bleek in 1910-11 to study the Naron Bushmen (Bleek 1928) and recording rock paintings in Lesotho around the same time (Wilman 1911). Rock art was one of her major interests and she produced the first systematic study of rock-engravings in the Northern Cape Province.

24 related objects

arrow; arrow-head; shaft

Museum number: Af1930,0120.19.a-c |
Ethnic group: x84752 Made by:San |
Production date: 20thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Kalahari DesertFound/Acquired:Botswana

arrow

Museum number: Af1930,0120.21.a-b |
Ethnic group: x84752 Made by:San |
Production date: 20thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Kalahari DesertFound/Acquired:Botswana

arrow; shaft

Museum number: Af1930,0120.20.a-c |
Ethnic group: x84752 Made by:San |
Production date: 20thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Kalahari DesertFound/Acquired:Botswana

arrow-head

Museum number: Af1930,0120.18.a |
Ethnic group: x84752 Made by:San |
Production date: 20thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Kalahari DesertFound/Acquired:Botswana

bangle; bracelet

Museum number: Af1930,0120.23 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:South Africa

bangle; armlet

Museum number: Af1930,0120.22.a-b |
Ethnic group: Made by:ShanganaMade by:Tsonga |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:South Africa

flake

Museum number: 1930,0120.4 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

flake

Museum number: 1930,0120.6 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

girdle; dress

Museum number: Af1930,0120.24 |
Ethnic group: x84901 Made by:Swazi |
Production date: 19thC(late)-20thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Swaziland

handaxe

Museum number: 1930,0120.1 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Kimberley (Northern Cape)

handaxe

Museum number: 1930,0120.2 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

handaxe

Museum number: 1930,0120.3 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.10 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Newlands (South Africa)

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.5 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.17 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Alexandersfontein

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.11 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.12 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Amantia

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.7 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.9 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.8 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Pniel

point

Museum number: 1930,0120.13 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:AlexandersfonteinExcavated/Findspot:Douglas (South Africa)

scraper

Museum number: 1930,0120.14 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Alexandersfontein

scraper

Museum number: 1930,0120.15 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Alexandersfontein

scraper

Museum number: 1930,0120.16 |
Cultures/periods: x14387 Palaeolithic |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Alexandersfontein