Black and white photograph

Museum number:
13-6955
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21130006955
Alternate number:
A-119 (previous number (donor's original number))
Description:
A black-and-white photographic print of a landscape with a waterfall in the immediate foreground and a canyon moving in the distance. Marked in white on the face of the image: "Denver African Expedition. A-119." Written on the back, in pencil: "Orokskaun Falls, Angola, Kunene River." [This title may, or may not, refer to the Oriskany Fall of Angola; the Oriskany Falls appears to be a large semi-circular network of waterfalls. In this image, there seems to be only a single waterfall.] Also written in pencil: "Hoefler was first American to see these falls.
Collection place:
Oriskany Falls, Cunene River, Angola
Verbatim coll. place:
Orokskaun Falls, Angola, Kunene River
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
ca. 1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
height 8 inches and width 10 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black and white photograph, accession number 13-6955, described as A black-and-white photographic print of a landscape with a waterfall in the immediate foreground and a canyon moving in the distance. Marked in white on the face of the image: "Denver African Expedition. A-119." Written on the back, in pencil: "Orokskaun Falls, Angola, Kunene River." [This title may, or may not, refer to the Oriskany Fall of Angola; the Oriskany Falls appears to be a large semi-circular network of waterfalls. In this image, there seems to be only a single waterfall.] Also written in pencil: "Hoefler was first American to see these falls.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black and white photograph, accession number 13-6955, described as A black-and-white photographic print of a landscape with a waterfall in the immediate foreground and a canyon moving in the distance. Marked in white on the face of the image: "Denver African Expedition. A-119." Written on the back, in pencil: "Orokskaun Falls, Angola, Kunene River." [This title may, or may not, refer to the Oriskany Fall of Angola; the Oriskany Falls appears to be a large semi-circular network of waterfalls. In this image, there seems to be only a single waterfall.] Also written in pencil: "Hoefler was first American to see these falls.

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