Open AccessMushroom art in South Africa and Zimbabwe – Emil Holub: 1847–1902
Author(s) -
Cathy Sharp,
R.S. Burrett
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bothalia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2311-9284
pISSN - 0006-8241
DOI - 10.38201/btha.abc.v51.i2.13
Subject(s) - czech , context (archaeology) , natural history , geography , ethnography , natural (archaeology) , ethnology , history , anthropology , archaeology , sociology , ecology , biology , philosophy , linguistics
Emil Holub was a nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian Czech, medical doctor with wide-ranging interests in ethnography and the natural sciences. During visits to southern Africa in the 1870s, he meticulously recorded everything that he encountered. Amongst his vast collection of artifacts, natural history specimens and notes were several sketches of fungi. These illustrations are reproduced here to document this valuable historical knowledge, tentatively identifying them in the context of the habitats through which Holub travelled.