Specimens of Bushman folklore

Bleek, W. H. I. (Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel), 1827-1875, Lloyd, Lucy, 1834-1914, Theal, George McCall, 1837-1919, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1911 · London : G. Allen & Company, ltd. · 5 pictures

A 1911 London folklore collection of Bushman (San) tales compiled by W. H. I. Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and George McCall Theal, drawing on southern African oral narratives for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are plain line drawings and photographic-style plates of animals, hunting arrows and a tshi-style spoon, with a few colour plates of weapons and a numbered caption layout that a designer might use for reference-style specimen labelling.

Folklore · Bushman

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