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Khoi or Gonaqua woman with a child at the breast

[Hand S3:]
Hottentottin, bij Frederik Potgieter aan de Kleine Visrivier de banden om de beene zijn geen dermen maar leere ringen.

[Hand S3:]
Hottentot woman, at Frederik Potgieter’s at the Little Fish River the bands around her legs are not entrails but leather rings.

Object data

  • Place: Little Fish River
  • Date: Probably December 1777

  • Gordon visited a Frederick Potgieter on 4th February 1778, but that was at the mouth of the Kromrivier.

  • Size: h 29.5 cm × w 18.7 cm
  • Object nummer: RP-T-1914-17-81