IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 29
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: TURNER, Dr George Albert (d 1917): 'Some anthropological notes on the South African coloured mine labourer'
Date(s): [c1915]
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Turner | George Albert | d 1917 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Educated, Aberdeen; Medical Officer, Witwatersrand Native Labour Association, Ltd., Johannesburg; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1911-1917; died, 1917.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript manuscript with annotations for a book by George Albert Turner entitled Some anthropological notes on the South African coloured mine labourer, including photographs of people from South African ethnic groups. Also encloses an off-print of an article by Turner 'Some of the tribal marks of the South African native races' reprinted from Transvaal Medical Journal, Feb 1911, pp. 73 and 79-80.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
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Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008