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Skin baby carriage or sling used by mother to carry children on back
Image Not Available for Skin baby carriage or sling used by mother to carry children on back
Object Number 37-105-50/3170
Display Title Skin baby carriage or sling used by mother to carry children on back
Descriptions
Indigenous Term dzowo
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ba Hlengwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, vicinity of; Hlengwe

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31343 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background
2001.29.22976 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: N!ai with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut) tied to her back, with Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui") and //Khuga next to her
2001.29.1358 Children, Mothers nursing babies: N!ai with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut) tied to her back, with Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui") and //Khuga next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
2001.29.2823 Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Carrying: //Khuga (wife of "Crooked /Qui") tying her daughter, Bau, into a sling on her back
2001.29.1389 Children, Carrying: //Khuga (wife of "Crooked /Qui") tying her daughter, Bau, into a sling on her back
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Carrying: Woman from Band 10 carrying Bau's baby in a sling and another child on her shoulder
2001.29.2852 Children, Carrying: Woman from Band 10 carrying Bau's baby in a sling and another child on her shoulder
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Carrying: Woman from Band 10 wearing a tortoise shell around her neck, carrying Bau's baby in a sling and another child on her shoulder
2001.29.2853 Children, Carrying: Woman from Band 10 wearing a tortoise shell around her neck, carrying Bau's baby in a sling and another child on her shoulder
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Bau (of Band 10) wearing an apron decorated with red beads, standing with her baby tied to her back, with other women sitting next to her
2001.29.2826 Children, Mother and children: Bau (of Band 10) wearing an apron decorated with red beads, standing with her baby tied to her back, with other women sitting next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Carrying: Girl of Band 10 carrying a baby in a sling, both wearing beaded ornaments
2001.29.32002 Children, Carrying: Girl of Band 10 carrying a baby in a sling, both wearing beaded ornaments
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Carrying: Woman putting a baby into a carrying sling
2001.29.1383 Children, Carrying: Woman putting a baby into a carrying sling
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1362 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1361 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy