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    A snapshot in time

    The whalebone house

    By Manni Goldbeck
    October 24, 2023

     

    I found this old postcard of this unusual and innovative Swakopmund house in a friend’s collection. We can guess that more than a century ago building material was hard to come by and people had to make use of whatever material came their way, in this case the rib bones of a whale that had washed up on the shore.

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