N!ai wearing Western clothing, standing in front of a hut

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Object Number 2001.29.266

Display Title N!ai wearing Western clothing, standing in front of a hut

Descriptions

Object Description N!ai dressed in Western clothes in front of her Bantu-style hut, 1961. Photograph probably by Laurence Marshall or Lorna Marshall.

Subject

Woman
Hut

Department Photographic

Date 1961

Culture

Ju/'hoansi

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Tsumkwe

Materials Slide, color

Dimensions Overall: 3.5 × 2.5 cm (1 3/8 × 1 in.)

Provenance

Donor Lorna Marshall

Donor John Marshall

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2001.29.689	Huts and skerms of ≠Toma's group, with a roof being constructed on the right	Tsumkwe
2001.29.19195	Man wearing Western clothing and a woman emerging from a hut's low doorway	Naulila
2001.29.13671	Man wearing Western clothing and a woman emerging from a hut's low doorway	Naulila
2001.29.688	N!ai and /Gishay working for the McIntyres, in the laundry area	Tsumkwe
2001.29.15401	Tsamgao wearing Western clothing, standing next to John Marshall who is filming two boys wrestling, with a kaross hanging on a post near them	Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.15263	/Ti!kay wearing Western clothing, standing with two other men next to the expedition Land Rover	Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.16518	Man wearing Western clothes sitting outside the expedition hut, eating from an enamel dish	Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.16517	Man wearing Western clothes sitting outside the expedition hut, eating from an enamel dish	Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.10167	N!ai and ≠Nisa wearing Western clothes, with Di!ai in her kaross	Mangetti Forest
2001.29.264	≠Toma standing with !U holding their youngest baby and /Naoka (!U's mother) in front of their skerm	Tsumkwe
2001.29.263	Group of children standing, including !Ungka Norna (in plaid dress), //Kushay (in red and white striped dress), /Qui (behind Norna), and /Gaishay (in white suit)	Tsumkwe
2001.29.15200	Man wearing Western clothing, sitting	Nyae Nyae Conservancy

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