Lot 4011
1892 (26 Nov.) "On Her Majesty's Service" envelope (305x127mm.), from John Cleverly to "The Honourable Captain Hendrik Witbooi, Chief of North Great Namaqualand, Hoorn Krans", showing "Resident Magistrate's Office/Walfish Bay" datestamp in magenta, faults/defects but one of the few surviving documents relating to Witbooi and the native population of Namibia.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
Provenance: Ihlow
Hendrik Witbooi, a Namibian chief, who is even today recognised as one of the great freedom fighters for his country, was originally a church elder with close ties to the Rhenish Missionary Society. In 1888, he became kapitein of the Orlam-Nama people, and later left the ancestral seat of Gibeon in 1892 for Hornkranz, where he probably planned his military campaign with his Hottentot tribe, first against the Herero and then against the German Colonial authority in 1894. He eventually lost his life fighting the Germans during the Nama Rebellion of 1904-07.
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