Robert Gesteland collection
name: label: Creator
content: Gesteland, Robert C.
place: label: Place
content: Africa, Southern
label: Place
content: Kalahari Desert
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnological expeditions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Robert Gesteland in 2007.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gesteland, Robert C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2007.17
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material from the 1957-58 Harvard Peabody Smithsonian expedition to the Kalahari Desert, including: Daily log of Robert C. Gesteland for the Harvard Peabody Smithsonian expedition to the Kalahari Desert, 1957-58, plus radio log for ZS3A and ZSR2014, South West Africa, Star legend interviews for Lorna Marshall and a trip log for Gesteland's travels before and after the expedtion.

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