Wooden wedge for fixing the stone weight in place on a digging stick. The wedge has been carved to a flattened tip. For digging stick see [2004.142.1091 .1] and for perforated stone weight see [2004.142.1091 .2]. [JC [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden wedge for fixing the stone weight in place on a digging stick. The wedge has been carved to a flattened tip. For digging stick see [2004.142.1091 .1] and for perforated stone weight see [2004.142.1091 .2]. [JC [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]
Long description: Wooden digging stick [.1] weighted with perforated stone ball [.2] which is fixed with a wedge [.3]. [JC [OPS Move] 30/11/2016]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; Northern Cape Province Griquatown
Cultural groups: Khoe-San
Person: Field collector Edward John Dunn; PRM source Edward John Dunn
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1872
Date collected: 1872
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936 Found unentered: 2004
Materials and processes: Material Olive Wood Plant, Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Process Perforated, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Wedged, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 15 mm, Width: max 16 mm, Length: max 97 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.142.1091.3 Other numbers: 1938.37.1 .1 1938.37.1 .2 1938.37.1 .3 [1940.10.33]
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Copy of MPhil Thesis by William Ellerby 'Forgotten but not Lost: a critical analysis of the life and work of E.J. Dunn' [LP 18/5/2004]
It appears that this digging-stick is the one being used by /Xaken-an (aka /Ogan-an and Mikki Streep) in a posed photograph taken at Oaklands in 1884. This photograph was used to produce the image on the cover of Specimens of Bushman Folklore, collected by W. H. I. Bleek and L. C. Lloyd, edited by L. C. Lloyd (London: 1911). Dunn himself wrote: 'The excellent photograph of the Bushman woman with the digging stick reproduced on the cover of 'Bushman Folklore', by Bleek and Lloyd, was taken at Oallands; the digging stick is till in my possession.' (See page 38 in The Bushman, by E. J. Dunn (London: C. Griffin, 1931).) For details, see the account on page 22 of 'The /Xam Informants', by Janette Deacon, in Voices from the Past: /Xam Bushmen and the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (The Khoisan Heritage Series), edited by Janette Deacon and Thomas A. Dowson (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1996), pp. 11-39. (Photocopy of page 22 in RDF.) See also the account on page 375 of Bushmen in a Victorian World: The Remarkable Story of the Bleek-Lloyd Collection of Bushman Folklore, by Andrew Bank (Cape Town: Double Story, 2006). (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 9 6 2017]
Associated publications: Related Documents File - A photocopy of 'Colonial and Indian Exhibition: London 1886. CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITS OF THE COLONY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.' There is an original copy of this in the Bodleian. This catalogue contains a detailed list of the Dunn Collection of stone tools and pottery. The objects are listed by type, with their provenance and cultural group listed. The objects are catalogued in this exhibition by letter/number combination [A1; B26; J42] etc, which refers to the labels that are still on many of the objects in the Dunn Collection. When a label was found on an object I have listed it in the 'Other numbers' field as well as in the Notes field as 'Pre-PRM label'. Some of the labels have fallen off or are illegible. [LP 10/6/2004]

Search terms: Agriculture and Horticulture, Tool, Food and Fuel Gathering, Digging Stick, Agricultural Tool