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Object Number
2001.29.254
Display Title
Group of people sitting, with a boy standing next to a film camera under an umbrella, John Marshall standing behind them
Descriptions
Object Description
This 1957–58 image of John Marshall, a group of Ju/’hoansi, and a camera appeared on the cover of the journal Visual Anthropology in 1999, some fifty years after it was taken. John Marshall recalled in “Filming and Learning” that “In 1955 I was still cleaning tin cans out of the shots to make Ju/’hoansi in Nyae Nyae look real” (32). Photograph probably by Robert Gesteland.
Subject
- Camera
- Umbrella
- People
Department
Photographic
Date
1957-1958
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Mangetti Forest
Additional Geographic Terms
!O
Materials
Slide, color
Dimensions
Overall: 2.5 × 3.5 cm (1 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall, 2001
Provenance
Donor
Lorna Marshall
Donor
John Marshall
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