Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32203
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
TAN-134 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4054 and Acc.4115
Description:
4" x 5" Negative. Three indigenous people filling up water for Hoefler's expedition. Hoefler's original description: "At a water hole. Sometimes it requires many hours to collect enough water for the journey. At this remote spot the small spring ran very slowly. Without doubt we were the first white men to ever visit this spot far in the hills of Tanganyika, and here we found lion spoor all over the place. The black boy in center facing the camera was killed shortly after this was taken by a lion.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanganyika
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
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32203, described as 4" x 5" Negative. Three indigenous people filling up water for Hoefler's expedition. Hoefler's original description: "At a water hole. Sometimes it requires many hours to collect enough water for the journey. At this remote spot the small spring ran very slowly. Without doubt we were the first white men to ever visit this spot far in the hills of Tanganyika, and here we found lion spoor all over the place. The black boy in center facing the camera was killed shortly after this was taken by a lion.

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