Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sameul Daniell - Kora-Khokhoi preparing to move - 1805.jpg

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Original - A Khoikhoi family dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures. Aquatint by Samuel Daniell - (1805).

Reason: This aquatint by Samuel Daniell 1805 provides an accurate depiction of Khoikhoi life in the very early 1800s and late 1700s. Prior to their nomadic way of life being permanently and dramatically changed by the arrival of white and Bantu settlers. This is one of the earliest known and most artistically skilled depictions of the Khoikhoi.
Articles in which this image appears: Khoikhoi, Samuel Daniell, Pastoralism
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/Others
Creator: Samuel Daniell (1805), first uploaded onto Wikipedia by Anrie

Support as nominator --Discott (talk) 19:29, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support interesting. Purpy Pupple (talk) 02:36, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support - this is the sort of thing we need more of. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:55, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, as above. J Milburn (talk) 00:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Who owns the dog? It'd be nice for more caption detail too imo. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The Khoikhoi where known to have kept dogs and other domesticated animals so I think it would be safe to assume that the artist had it in mind that the family would be the owners of the dog in the picture. Particularity since this is a scene depicting the domestic life of the Khoikhoi; as such one would expect to see in the picture things that they would own like their huts (being dismantled), armaments, pets and cattle. I was thinking of expanding the caption to include some of the stuff I mentioned in the rational. I suppose I could mention that they are/were a pastoralist society that lived in southern Africa before the arrival of European and Bantu settlers? --Discott (talk) 12:22, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Samuel Daniell - Kora-Khokhoi preparing to move - 1805.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]