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Expedition, Personnel: John Marshall filming a brush fire (half of stereoview 2001.29.6375)
Expedition, Personnel: John Marshall filming a brush fire (half of stereoview 2001.29.6375)
Object Number 2001.29.302
Display Title Expedition, Personnel: John Marshall filming a brush fire (half of stereoview 2001.29.6375)
Descriptions
Object Description John Marshall filming a brush fire, 1951–53. The Ju/’hoansi sometimes set brush fires to drive animals out into the open, and the expedition group occasionally set its own fires to clear the way for the caravan to Nyae Nyae. Photograph by Laurence Marshall.
Subject
  • Man
  • Fire
Department Photographic
Date 1951-1953
Artist Laurence K. Marshall
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Materials Slide, color
Dimensions Overall: 2.5 × 2.5 cm (1 × 1 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Expedition, Personnel: John Marshall and Laurence Marshall sitting on the ground next to a fire
2001.29.2388 Expedition, Personnel: John Marshall and Laurence Marshall sitting on the ground next to a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Expedition, Personnel: Laurence Marshall filming
2001.29.2386 Expedition, Personnel: Laurence Marshall filming
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for John Marshall copies of notebooks
2008.21.1 John Marshall copies of notebooks
Documentary
Botswana
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Two large groups of people sitting, preparing for a dance, with John Marshall filming them, tin cans on the ground next to them
2001.29.16527 Two large groups of people sitting, preparing for a dance, with John Marshall filming them, tin cans on the ground next to them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group of people sitting, with a boy standing next to a film camera under an umbrella, John Marshall standing behind them
2001.29.254 Group of people sitting, with a boy standing next to a film camera under an umbrella, John Marshall standing behind them
Mangetti Forest
Expedition, Personnel: Laurence Marshall standing on the top of an expedition truck holding a Polaroid camera
2001.29.508 Expedition, Personnel: Laurence Marshall standing on the top of an expedition truck holding a Polaroid camera
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Expedition: John Marshall filming veld fire
2001.29.6375 Expedition: John Marshall filming veld fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
People sitting behind Robert Dyson standing, with Laurence Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Lorna Marshall sitting, showing their insulated boots (print from stereoview 2001.29.24941)
2001.29.876 People sitting behind Robert Dyson standing, with Laurence Marshall, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Lorna Marshall sitting, showing their insulated boots (print from stereoview 2001.29.24941)
Angola
Image Not Available for Lorna Marshall research papers
2018.9.1 Lorna Marshall research papers
Paper
South Africa
Namibia
Botswana
Expedition: John Marshall filming, standing at the top of Jeep
2001.29.6295 Expedition: John Marshall filming, standing at the top of Jeep
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Expedition: John Marshall filming women; one woman is holding a baby
2001.29.6305 Expedition: John Marshall filming women; one woman is holding a baby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Person sitting next to Laurence Marshall and John Marshall filming a daytime dance
2001.29.16270 Person sitting next to Laurence Marshall and John Marshall filming a daytime dance
Nyae Nyae Conservancy