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South Africa
The British Commonwealth in Pictures

Item date(s): 1941

Sarah Gertrude Millin
Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (featured artist)


Pages: 47pp + plates
Size: 228mm
Inscription: To little Mama, a few Bushmen painting in this. Walter. 23.2.42


Place publication: London
Publisher: William Collins

Additional notes:
"little Mama" was Battiss's affectionate name for his mother.

On pp 24 and 32: 'Baboons' and 'A Bushman Dance'. Drawings by W. W. Battiss after original Bushman paintings.

This book is from the Battiss Estate Archive.

Ref: GB/30949



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