Sound from the thinking strings
Subtitle: a visual, literary, archaeological and historical interpretation of the final years of /Xam life
By: edited by Pippa Skotnes ; three original colour etchings and seventeen original monochrome etchings by Pippa Skotnes ; translations from the Bleek and Lloyd collection of interviews with //Kabbo, /Han#kasso and Dia!kwain by Stephen Watson ; essays by John Parkington and Nigel Penn ; foreward by Stephen Jay Gould.
Contributors: Watson, Stephen.; Bleek, W. H. I. 1827-1875.; Lloyd, Lucy, 1834-1914.; Artists' Books Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Axeage Private Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Skotnes, Pippa, 1957-; Ethnology -- South Africa.; San (African people)
Notes: OCLC, ocm25152851
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-162).
"This private edition, with three original colour etchings and seventeen original black and white etchings by Pippa Skotnes, each signed and numbered by the artist, is limited to: 50 copies numbered 1 to 50, 12 artist's proofs numbered A.P. I to A.P. XII, and 3 hors commerce numbered H.C. I to H.C. III ... Each copy is signed by all the contributors"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. H.C. II, with ms. notation: This copy one of three bound by Mahnoud Balzar. Included with this copy are: three of the final trial prints from the book (all signed by Skotnes), 6 pages of notes and sketches made by Skotnes on trips she made to various rock sites, and an exercise book of notes made by Skotnes from the Bleek/Lloyd archive at the University of Cape Town.