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South African Museum, Cape town Life-casts of natives. Bushwomen of the Auen tribe, making ostrich eggshell beads. Border of Kalahari, South West Africa
ca. 1970
Africa; South Africa
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Original caption reads, "South African Museum, Cape town. Life-casts of Natives. Bushwomen of the Auen tribe, making ostrich eggshell beads. Border of Kalahari, South West Africa. One woman shapes the pieces roughly with her teeth and a little stone anvil; the other drills them, strings them and rubs them down to uniform size.".
- Collection
- African Postcard Collection
- Archival grouping
- African Postcard Collection / Series 41: South Africa (SA)
- Catalog date
- ca. 1970
- Recorded places
- Africa; South Africa
- Recorded subjects
- Museums
- Format and extent
- 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
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Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SA-41-03
Collection: African Postcard Collection