Padlangs Namibia

A snapshot in time – The whalebone house

Written by Admin | Oct 24, 2023 5:52:38 AM

 

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.