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African Batiks
This collection contains two seperate African animal Batiks. One of the batiks has a redish hue and the other blue. Batiks refer to a cloth that traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. In October of 2009, UNESCO designated that Batiks are a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. A label accompanies the batiks that read: African Animal Batiks colored dyes on cotton, 1970, Gift of Mrs. Thomas Raeburn White.
African Rhinoceros with Tick Birds Sculpture
This is a plaster cast of the African Rhinoceros with Tick Birds sculpture created by James Lippitt Clark. Clark was known for his excellent sculptor work with African animals and sculpted many Rhinos in his lifetime. This Black Rhino statue stands thirty inches tall and forty inches wide. It was created in 1912 and said to be on of Clark's best works.
Film Collection
Film: "To Africa for a Habitat Group, Desert of Borkou," the 1955 Carpenter Expedition
In October 2017 the original lead part for the "To Africa for a Habitat Group" was found and added to the 2012.001 accesion.
George L. Harrison, Jr., Photographs from Hunting Expeditions, 1903-1914
Old Bushman Sculpture
Photo Albums of Hecksher Wetherill, Africa, 1912-1913
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