D2.6.1-39: ['Original drawings used in Specimens of Bushman Folklore']

D2.6.1-39: ['Original drawings used in Specimens of Bushman Folklore']

Publications and Reports

Thirty-nine original (monochrome and polychrome) watercolours and drawings, in charcoal, graphite, and coloured pencil, primarily by the younger !kun language instructors. Several were also done by senior |xam instructors, Dia!kwain and |hanǂkass'o. Inked captions and subsequent pencil annotations in another hand (e.g., 'need not be in colour', left of Dia!kwain's 'Water-Bull') may indicate that they were expressly done for 'Specimens of Bushman folklore' (1911).

Charcoal, ink, graphite, and watercolour on paper

1875, 1878-1881

Thirty-nine original (monochrome and polychrome) illustrations subsequently mounted individually inside archival card folios.

Drawings (in charcoal, graphite, and coloured pencil), watercolours, |xam instructors (their drawings and watercolours), !kun instructors (their drawings and watercolours), Specimens of Bushman folklore (original illustrations used in)

Despite the University of Cape Town's current (2025) Special Collections library fonds stating otherwise, Roland Trimen's notes (UCT BC 151, D2.6.1-10) on endemic fauna do not join up with these original illustrations (UCT BC 151, D2.6.1-39) of fauna, flora, implements, and human structures. However, both inform 'Specimens of Bushman folklore' (1911).