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"≠Gao Lame," portrait
Object Number 2001.29.93
Display Title "≠Gao Lame," portrait
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Polaroid
Dimensions Overall: 8.255 × 12.3825 cm (3 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"≠Gao Lame," portrait
2001.29.94 "≠Gao Lame," portrait
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"≠Gao Lame," portrait
2001.29.95 "≠Gao Lame," portrait
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Unidentified boy, "≠Gao Lame" and Tsamgao squatting
2001.29.78 Unidentified boy, "≠Gao Lame" and Tsamgao squatting
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portrait of "≠Gao Lame" (son of /Naoka and brother of Di!ai and !U)
2001.29.19376 Portrait of "≠Gao Lame" (son of /Naoka and brother of Di!ai and !U)
Gautscha
"/Kxao Lame" and a boy standing under a tree
2001.29.10320 "/Kxao Lame" and a boy standing under a tree
Mangetti Forest
/Qui, !Kxao Lame, and /Ti!kay wearing Western clothes (shirts and hats), with another man standing beside them
2001.29.10187 /Qui, !Kxao Lame, and /Ti!kay wearing Western clothes (shirts and hats), with another man standing beside them
Mangetti Forest
Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
2001.29.22093 Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Lame ≠Gao" standing, facing /Gao (older son of "Old Gau"), with people standing, sitting next to skerms in the background
2001.29.12026 "Lame ≠Gao" standing, facing /Gao (older son of "Old Gau"), with people standing, sitting next to skerms in the background
Gautscha
Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1)
2001.29.13923 Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1)
Gautscha
"≠Gao Lame" lying down wrapped in a blanket, Di!ai and Debe to the left, and Norna standing with her arms around her mother's neck
2001.29.28057 "≠Gao Lame" lying down wrapped in a blanket, Di!ai and Debe to the left, and Norna standing with her arms around her mother's neck
Nama Pan
"≠Gao Lame" lying down wrapped in a blanket, Di!ai and Debe to the left, and Norna standing with her arms around her mother's neck
2001.29.21906 "≠Gao Lame" lying down wrapped in a blanket, Di!ai and Debe to the left, and Norna standing with her arms around her mother's neck
Nama Pan