At Delta Solms, when the
archaeologists started to dig they found not just the remains of an old
building but also relics of a past civilisation dating back to the Late Stone
Age. I found it fascinating to imagine how ancient hands had made and worked with the relics. It was all described in the museum’s display
cabinets and panels and but what made it more mystic was that I was transported into their world by the haunting voice over of a Khoisan
storyteller.
The cabinets also hold Japanese ceramics from the days when the farm was founded in 1690 under
the Dutch East India Company, the cheaper Chinese pottery of later British
times, mixed with some produced in England and forced on the colonies by the East India Company and the Westminster government’s policy of trade monopoly.
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