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/Naoka (mother of !U) or her sister
/Naoka (mother of !U) or her sister
Object Number 2001.29.352
Display Title /Naoka (mother of !U) or her sister
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations written in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by A. Scherz / 62/2"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
Subject
  • People
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 x 20.32 cm (6 x 8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25528.1 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka, mother of !U, portrait (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30121 [No folder title]: /Naoka, mother of !U, portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Rites - 1st kill": !U with Norna, and another woman (probably ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka) with her baby (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30815 "Rites - 1st kill": !U with Norna, and another woman (probably ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka) with her baby (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka (mother of !U), portrait
2001.29.14158 /Naoka (mother of !U), portrait
Gautscha
"Nursing": /Naoka and N!ai (sisters and co-wives of /Ti!kay) nursing their babies (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31276.1 "Nursing": /Naoka and N!ai (sisters and co-wives of /Ti!kay) nursing their babies (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka, wife of /Ti!kay, carrying her son !Nani on her shoulders and her daughter /Khoa in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31375 [No folder title]: /Naoka, wife of /Ti!kay, carrying her son !Nani on her shoulders and her daughter /Khoa in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine) and a man putting their hands on a kaross
2001.29.26045.1 /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine) and a man putting their hands on a kaross
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25544 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30739 "Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25534 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25534.1 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha