Walter Whall Battiss
(1906-1982) - (copied by) George William Stow
- (title)
Pages: 47pp + unnumbered Size: 310mm Binding: Zebra skin sewn to card with riempie. Leather embossed title sewn to cover with riempie. Language: English Edition: Unique
Publisher: The artist
Additional notes: Only recto pages on each folded sheet were used and numbered.
The book was tied with red string which has been removed as it was damaging the pages.
Battiss has taken infinite care in copying the text in his best cursive with bold headings, rubrication and numbering, etc. He has annotated a strip left free on the left hand side of each page.
Title page: Excerpts Taken From George William Stow's "Native Races of South Africa".
p1-6. The Bushmen of the 'Nu 'Gariep, or Upper Orange. Drawing on page 5.
p7-8. The Bushmen of the Genadeberg and Around Champagne.
p9-10. The Bushman of the 'Kouwe (The Mountain or Jammerberg).
p10 (sic - duplicated) -13. The Bushmen of the Makwatling or Koranaberg.
p14-15. The Bushmen of Di-Tse-Thlong or Platberg on the Caledon.
p16-18. The Bushmen of the Koesberg.
p19-21. The Bushmen of the Upper Modder River & Rhenoster Spruit.
[Inserted here an unnumbered page "The Conquered Territory.: The Warren Line 1849. Annexation of the O.F.S. 1866 with a hand-drawn map.]
p22-27. The Bushmen of the Witte-Bergen and Washbank. [p27 is blank].
p28-33. CHAPTER XI. The Bushmen of the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.
p34-35A. The Palace Cave of the Python
p35B-39. Madura. [p39 is blank]
p40-44. CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Struggle of the Bushmen for Existence.
p45- 47. One Moved through the country South of the Stormberg. [There is a drawing on the verso of p46].
The numbering stops here and what would have been p48 is titled "Various Pages"