Dorothea Bleek's shoe and BC151 muniment boxes

Dorothea Bleek's shoe and BC151 muniment boxes

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cardboard; ink on paper; and buckram-covered book board

Dorothea Bleek's repurposed shoeboxes and purpose-made muniment boxes (likely book board covered in buckram) originally housed the many BC151 notecards donated by her to UCT. Some with Cooper, Dennison, and Walkden, Ltd.'s 'Mura' labels with blue borders of several concentric octagons of varying thickness. The many notecards recording English translations for words in various Bushman languages culminated in Dorothea's definitive, posthumous 'A Bushman Dictionary' (1956).

shoeboxes (belonging to Dorothea Bleek), Dorothea Bleek (her shoeboxes), Mura (a line of labels produced by Cooper, Dennison, and Walkden, Ltd), The Championship (stitch-less), Ballafric fine footwear

The encircled '151' on many of the boxes refer to UCT's BC151 (a fonds number) Bleek and Lloyd Collection. See the curation titled 'The slips in the shoeboxes' (https://ibali.uct.ac.za/s/the-winds-place/page/slips-shoeboxes).