Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32591
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21150032591
Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts bat eared foxes on the Serengeti Plains, Tanganyika (Tanzania). Hoefler's original description: "Serengeti Plains, Tanganyika (Tanzania). Baby bat eared foxes. These wild doggies, as some folks here call them, feed mostly on insects, and whenever we wanted them to have a big feed, would set the lamp on the ground after dark, and soon bugs of all sorts from tiny flying ants to huge beetles weighing several ounces, would gather at the light and our foxes would scurry around in high glee, eating from the flying horde until they nearly popped."
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Serengeti Plains, Tanganyika (Tanzania)
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 15-32591, described as 8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts bat eared foxes on the Serengeti Plains, Tanganyika (Tanzania). Hoefler's original description: "Serengeti Plains, Tanganyika (Tanzania). Baby bat eared foxes. These wild doggies, as some folks here call them, feed mostly on insects, and whenever we wanted them to have a big feed, would set the lamp on the ground after dark, and soon bugs of all sorts from tiny flying ants to huge beetles weighing several ounces, would gather at the light and our foxes would scurry around in high glee, eating from the flying horde until they nearly popped."

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