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

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