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/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.373
Display Title /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "#18 / A !Kung woman brings wood for / her family fire. Each family keeps / a fire burning all night / This picture was published in the / South West Africa Annual, 1956, p. 45 / Men and women bring wood / 44-4 / 3" / SWA Annual / 44-4"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for publication / Copy No. ______ / L. Marshall"
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: 20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31257 "Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373.1 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29907 [No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder
2001.29.14034 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30110 [No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys groups /Gunda & //Ao": N!ai playing a //guashi, with a large group sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29967 "Boys groups /Gunda & //Ao": N!ai playing a //guashi, with a large group sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736.1 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
2001.29.269 ≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30433 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped 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
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha