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DRURY'S EXCAVATION On 16 February 1911 , on Péringuey's instructions , James Drury , the Museum's taxidermist ( Fig . 3 ) , started excavations in the shelter in which Whitcher had made his finds . The following are excerpts from ...
DRURY'S EXCAVATION On 16 February 1911 , on Péringuey's instructions , James Drury , the Museum's taxidermist ( Fig . 3 ) , started excavations in the shelter in which Whitcher had made his finds . The following are excerpts from ...
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If Drury were the perpetrator of a forgery , the logistics of this act , though not insuperable , would have been considerable . The stone on which the painting was done measures 300 × 240 × 90 mm and weighs 8,5 kg .
If Drury were the perpetrator of a forgery , the logistics of this act , though not insuperable , would have been considerable . The stone on which the painting was done measures 300 × 240 × 90 mm and weighs 8,5 kg .
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Apart from the fact that Drury made numerous plaster casts of rock engravings , some from as far afield as Namibia , nothing is ... He joined the Museum in 1902 but , although Péringuey is known to have had a high regard for Drury's ...
Apart from the fact that Drury made numerous plaster casts of rock engravings , some from as far afield as Namibia , nothing is ... He joined the Museum in 1902 but , although Péringuey is known to have had a high regard for Drury's ...
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| Title | Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Volume 99, Issue 6 of Annals of the South African Museum, South African Museum |
| Author | South African Museum |
| Publisher | West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2016 |
| ISBN | 0868131121, 9780868131122 |
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