[Draft for Broadcast: 28/9/1946 by Miss DF Bleek]

[Draft for Broadcast: 28/9/1946 by Miss DF Bleek]

Publications and Reports

A draft for a broadcast by Dorothea Bleek on the Bushmen and their rock paintings in South Africa (and Rhodesia) on or circa 28 September 1946.

Ink on paper

1946-09-28

A facsimile of typewritten pages with transferred and subsequent annotations/corrections in black ink and pencil. TS.

Rock paintings (predating white and black men in South Africa), small yellow race (descendants of Stone Age men), Bushmen (were not toilers), clays and ochres (Bushmen painted with), monochromes (often badly drawn), George Stow, polychromes (in the Eastern Province, Free State, and Natal), Rhodesia (has well-drawn plants and attempts at scenery), headdresses (women with bucks' heads treading a dance), dance (one to test the children's manners), rainbull, special creatures (frog, fish, snake, and tortoise), Early Race (the girl turned into a frog, with all her people), physiognomy (of Bushmen and Bantu in fight scenes), White men (soldiers with busby and sword in rock art), Professor Balfour (the Oxford archaeologist), superpositions (more in South Africa than Spain), old world (has less rock paintings than South Africa)