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Scheme for a Survey of Prehistoric Art in South Africa

Item date(s): 16.10.1938

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (survey by)
C. van Riet Lowe - (letters from)
C. T. te Water - (letters to and from)

Pages: various
Size: 330mm
Language: English

Place publication: London & Johannesburg

Additional notes:
The Scheme is on four pages plus a title page in cursive, signed and dated by Battiss on both the title page and page4: 16.10.38.

Plus three letters:

1. Single page typed letter from C. T. te Water to Mr van Riet Lowe dated 8th September 1938.

2. Two page typed letter from C. van Riet Lowe to Mr Te Water dated 17th September 1938.

3. Letter from the Director of the Bureau of Archaeology, Department of the Interior, Johannesburg dated 19th September 1938: Prehistoric Art in South Africa. Dear Mr Battiss, I enclose copies of interchanges between Te Water and myself -- and wait patiently for your scheme! Salaam! [signed] van Riet Lowe.

Ref: GB/30277