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Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881)
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of interviews and stories, drawings, paintings and photographs of and xam and !kun individuals, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd between 1870 and 1881 in Cape Town. My dissertation focuses on the !kun children's material in the archive, created b...
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| author | Winberg, Marlene |
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| description | The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of interviews and stories, drawings, paintings and photographs of and xam and !kun individuals, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd between 1870 and 1881 in Cape Town. My dissertation focuses on the !kun children's material in the archive, created by Lucy Lloyd and the four !kun boys, !nanni, Tamme uma and Da, who lived in her home in Cape Town between 1879 and 1881. Until very recently, their collection of 17 notebooks and more than 570 paintings and drawings had been largely ignored and remained a silent partner to the larger, xam, part of the collection. Indeed, in a major publication it was declared that nothing was known about the boys and stated that "there is no information on their families of origin, the conditions they had previously lived under, or the reasons why they ended up in custody" (Szalay 2002: 21). This study places the children centre stage and explores their stories from a number of perspectives. I set out to assess to what extent the four !kun children laid down an account of their personal and historical experiences, through their texts, paintings and drawings in the Bleek and Lloyd project to record Bushmen languages and literature. In order to do this, I have investigated the historical and socioeconomic conditions in the territory now known as Namibia during the period of their childhoods, as well as the circumstances under which the children were conveyed to Cape Town and eventually joined the Bleek- Lloyd household. I have looked at Lucy Lloyd's personal history and examined the ways in which she shaped the making of the collection in her home. I suggest that a consideration of the loss and trauma experienced by Lloyd may have predisposed her to recognition and engagement of, or at least, accommodation of, the trauma experienced by the !kun boys. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21627 Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) Winberg, Marlene Skotnes, Pippa Hamilton, Carolyn Fine Art The Bleek and Lloyd Collection is an archive of interviews and stories, drawings, paintings and photographs of and xam and !kun individuals, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd between 1870 and 1881 in Cape Town. My dissertation focuses on the !kun children's material in the archive, created by Lucy Lloyd and the four !kun boys, !nanni, Tamme uma and Da, who lived in her home in Cape Town between 1879 and 1881. Until very recently, their collection of 17 notebooks and more than 570 paintings and drawings had been largely ignored and remained a silent partner to the larger, xam, part of the collection. Indeed, in a major publication it was declared that nothing was known about the boys and stated that "there is no information on their families of origin, the conditions they had previously lived under, or the reasons why they ended up in custody" (Szalay 2002: 21). This study places the children centre stage and explores their stories from a number of perspectives. I set out to assess to what extent the four !kun children laid down an account of their personal and historical experiences, through their texts, paintings and drawings in the Bleek and Lloyd project to record Bushmen languages and literature. In order to do this, I have investigated the historical and socioeconomic conditions in the territory now known as Namibia during the period of their childhoods, as well as the circumstances under which the children were conveyed to Cape Town and eventually joined the Bleek- Lloyd household. I have looked at Lucy Lloyd's personal history and examined the ways in which she shaped the making of the collection in her home. I suggest that a consideration of the loss and trauma experienced by Lloyd may have predisposed her to recognition and engagement of, or at least, accommodation of, the trauma experienced by the !kun boys. 2016-09-01T07:12:48Z 2016-09-01T07:12:48Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MFA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21627 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) |
| title_full | Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) |
| title_fullStr | Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) |
| title_short | Annotations of loss and abundance : an examination of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881) |
| title_sort | annotations of loss and abundance an examination of the kun children s material in the bleek and lloyd collection 1879 1881 |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21627 |
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