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Children, Eating: N!ai (≠Toma's niece) giving a drink of water from //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], to /Gaishay (her half-brother)
Children, Eating: N!ai (≠Toma's niece) giving a drink of water from //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], to /Gaishay (her half-brother)
Object Number 2001.29.257
Display Title Children, Eating: N!ai (≠Toma's niece) giving a drink of water from //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], to /Gaishay (her half-brother)
Descriptions
Object Description ≠Toma’s niece N!ai offers her half-brother Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell container, 1953. Photograph probably by Anneliese Scherz.
Subject
  • Ostrich Eggshell
Department Photographic
Date 1951-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials slide, 35mm
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
2001.29.11906.3 Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
2001.29.11906.2 Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
2001.29.11906.1 Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
2001.29.1354 Children, Eating: N!ai giving a drink of water from an ostrich eggshell to /Gaishay, her half-brother
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25898.1 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.1 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.556 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.25898 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.2 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31899 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.14437 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha