Bushman Paintings. Copied by M. Helen Tongue with a Preface by Henry Balfour

M. Helen Tongue was a school teacher at Rockland Girls High during the 1890s and 1900s in the town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.It was here that she met Dorothea Bleek, daughter of famous San linguist and ethnographer, Wilhelm Bleek. The two travelled widely visiting rock art sites in the region. Tongue developed a direct contact tracing technique to record each image (both painted and engraved) in its exact proportions and in its relationship to other images as they appeared on the rock surface. In this way, she took an important step beyond the pioneer recording work of George Stow.

English. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1909. 48 pp booklet containing 2 chromocollotypes - 1 double page and 6 black and white plates, preface, introduction, notes on the Bushmen and list of plates with 1 loose sheet with 2 maps, 54 loose colour plates of Bushman paintings, housed in a very worn . Bound in torn paper wrappers, some light foxing sporadically throughout and on fore-edges. Plates are also similarly with light foxing here and there. Book No: 2504464