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Gogga Brown 



implement which in his honour have now been 

 classified as belonging to the * Smithfield culture/ 

 A somewhat curious thing about the Brown and 

 Kannemeyer collaboration is that in his own 

 particular area Brown was almost blind to the 

 presence of the Smithfield culture, whilst in his 

 own district Kannemeyer took little interest in 

 those earlier and equally interesting types that 

 Brown had specialized in. Yet any archaeologist, 

 with the knowledge of these things which we 

 have to-day, can collect in quantity specimens of 

 both these cultures in both their areas. Another 

 interesting thing is a ' cache * of 200 tiny pygmy 

 implements that Brown discovered and described 

 with special care, intrigued as he no doubt was 

 by the idea that there might have been misers 

 like himself in Bushmen days. 



About the year 1903 Broom learned about 

 Brown's archaeological collection through visiting 

 him in connection with the study of his fossils. 

 Having enjoyed such good hunting amongst these 

 latter specimens and being a good sportsman, 

 Broom wrote to ask him for the same facilities 

 as he himself enjoyed on behalf of Dr. Peringuey, 

 who was busy writing his great work on * The 

 Stone Age of South Africa.* 



Brown, however, was quite indignant and was 

 not slow in telling Broom that he had only a 



