Bleek collection
The Collection Bleek gathers papers of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827 - 1875), of his/her sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd (1834 - 1914), of its daughter Dorothea Bleek (1873 - 1948) and of George William Stow (1822 - 1882), which milked with research that they carried out on the language and the folklore san (Bochiman S), as well as albums of Photographie S.
The essence of the collection is consisted the notebooks in which Bleek and Lloyd consigned their observations on the language and the Mythologie of the Xam, a company of hunters-gatherers now disappeared and whom belonged to the group of Bochimans of the south, or Env. These notebooks count more than 12.000 pages. One finds there words or accounts xam, with their English translation. These documents give an invaluable and exceptional outline on the language, the daily life, the religion, mythology, the folklore and the accounts of this population of the last age of the stone.
The Bleek collection is preserved at the library of the Université of the Cape ( South African Library ) to the Cape in South Africa. Since 1997 it is classified on the Liste Memory of the world of UNESCO.
See too
- Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
- List Memory of the world
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