Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32699
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
8 x 10" Negative. Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Image depicts two Nandi warriors, shining their equipment with lubricating oil. Hoefler's original description: "Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Photograph show two Nandi warriors, who afterwards speared the lions for Paul L. Hoefler in Tanganyika (Tanzania). The Nandi are a most courageous tribe and the only warriors whose traditions still hold them steadfast in the face of a charging lion. These men were using some of the Expedition’s lubricating oil to shine up their equipment preparatory to departure for Camp Simba."
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1928-1929
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Production date:
1928-1929
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32699, described as 8 x 10" Negative. Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Image depicts two Nandi warriors, shining their equipment with lubricating oil. Hoefler's original description: "Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Photograph show two Nandi warriors, who afterwards speared the lions for Paul L. Hoefler in Tanganyika (Tanzania). The Nandi are a most courageous tribe and the only warriors whose traditions still hold them steadfast in the face of a charging lion. These men were using some of the Expedition’s lubricating oil to shine up their equipment preparatory to departure for Camp Simba."

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