Southwest Africa: The Edwin Loeb Collection
Africa had not been an important collection area for the museum until Edwin M. Loeb's participation in a multi-disciplinary university expedition to Southwest Africa (Namibia) in 1947-48. Loeb, who had worked with the Pomo Indians in the 1920s, was then a geography professor. He and his wife Ella-Marie Loeb made a comprehensive collection from the Ovambo, a cattle-herding Bantu people.
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