D2.7.1-18: [Photographs used in 'Specimens of Bushman folklore']

D2.7.1-18: [Photographs used in 'Specimens of Bushman folklore']

Publications and Reports

Specimens of Bushman folklore (1911) was authored by the comparative linguist Wilhelm HI Bleek and his self-taught sister-in-law, Lucy C Lloyd (the editor). With an introduction by George McCall Theal, it is the culmination of Bleek and Lloyd's 'Bushman researches', with testimonies painstakingly gathered, transcribed, and translated by the authors with the cooperation of many language instructors. Some, but not all, narratives are aetiological. Taking from the |xam and !kun (to a lesser extent) texts, it presents eighty-seven legends, myths, poems, songs, botanical knowledge, hunting practices (observances), mysticism (divination and sorcery), "other" traditional stories, and social history in the now extinct |xam and endangered !kun languages.

Ink on paper

Eighteen images (photograph facsimiles and one diagram), some of which are captioned in pencil. The captioned images, distinguished by borders that skirt them, are on glossy paper.

Photographic proofs (for Specimens of Bushman folklore), Specimens of Bushman folklore, ||kabbo, Bushman (at Salt River and the Breakwater Convict Station, respectively), Salt River Bushman, Breakwater Convict Station (Bushmen photographed at), Mikki Streep (a photograph of), ǀxaken-an (also called Mikki Streep), kweiten ta ||ken (a photograph of), Grass Bushman, digging-stick (ǀxaken-an holding a), ǃnanni (a young !kun instructor), Tamme (a young !kun instructor), |uma (a young !kun instructor), Da (a young !kun instructor)

Photographic proofs for the ǀxam and ǃkun Bushmen photographed at the Breakwater (on Cape Town's foreshore) and Salt River (also in Cape Town) for 'Specimens of Bushman folklore' (1911). The original photographs are dated to 1871, 1880, and 1884, respectively.

LC Lloyd