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Claim to the country : the archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek / [created, compiled, and introduced by] Pippa Skotnes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Johannesburg : Jacana ; Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007]Description: 388 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 col. map, ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm. + 1 DVD (col. ; 4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 1770093370 (Jacana : hbk.)
  • 9781770093379 (Jacana : hbk.)
  • 9780821417782 (Ohio : hbk.)
  • 0821417789 (Ohio : hbk.)
Other title:
  • Claim to the country : the archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd [Cover title]
  • Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek
  • Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
  • Title on accompanying DVD: Claim to the country : the digital Bleek and Lloyd
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DT1058.S36 S55 2007
Online resources: Summary: Consists of all the notebook pages, watercolours and drawings that comprise the bulk of the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek /Xam and !Kun (Bushmen) archive, with photographs, documents, letters and notes, as well as contextualizing essays and an index for the included narratives and contributors.
Holdings
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DT1058.S36S55 2007 1 Available 33710001129258

"Including the complete /Xam and !Kun texts given by /A!kunta, /Ikabbo, Kasin, Dia!kwain, !Kweiten ta /Iken and /Hankass'o; also the boys /Uma, Tamme, !Nanni and Da, along with their watercolours and drawings, never before published in their entirety ; with selected photographs, documents, letters and notes, including contributions from Jemima Bleek and Dorothea Bleek ; and contributions from John Parkington ... [et al.]."

DVD has imprint: [Cape Town] : Llarec, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, c2007.

Accompanying DVD includes scans of every p. of the 114 Lucy Lloyd /Xam notebooks, 13 !Kun notebooks and 28 Wilhelm Bleek /Xam notebooks. It also includes Jemima Bleek's solitary Korana and !Kun notebook and all the drawings and watercolors made by /Hankass'o, Dia!kwain, Tamme, /Uma, !Nanni and Da. There is also a cross-referenced keyword index to all the texts, and notes and sumaries for each of the stories.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-382) and index.

Consists of all the notebook pages, watercolours and drawings that comprise the bulk of the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek /Xam and !Kun (Bushmen) archive, with photographs, documents, letters and notes, as well as contextualizing essays and an index for the included narratives and contributors.