Posted by Joe Cimoch [68.184.47.175] on Tuesday, February 04, 2014 at 19:07:38 :
During the 1950’s the Marshall family from the USA set out to study the Bushmen living in the Kalahari Desert. These expeditions were sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Peabody Museum. Among the vehicles used for these expeditions were a CJ2a Jeep, two GMC 6 wheel drive trucks. and two Dodge Power Wagons.
In 1950, Lawrence Marshall, retired co-founder of the Raytheon Company, and seventeen-year-old John Marshall embarked on the first of numerous Peabody Museum expeditions to the Kalahari Desert where they encountered Ju/'hoansi !Kung, still living as nomadic hunter-gatherers. Arrangements were made to return the next year along with Lorna Marshall, an English teacher, and their college-aged daughter Elizabeth Marshall [Thomas.] For eleven years, the Marshall family-Lorna, Lawrence, and their children,
Elizabeth and John-documented the way of life of the indigenous Ju/'hoansi !Kung of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Unschooled in anthropology and in photography, the Marshalls literally trained themselves in the field. Lorna and Elizabeth conducted extensive ethnography, writing numerous books and articles.
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