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Bene headman and wives escorting his daughter to her marriage.
Bene headman and wives escorting his daughter to her marriage.
Object Number 2004.24.31709
Display Title Bene headman and wives escorting his daughter to her marriage.
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • People and Family
Subject
  • Family
Department Photographic
Date 1919-1987
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Fang
  • Bene
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Headman and wives escorting his daughter to her marriage
2004.29.11904 Headman and wives escorting his daughter to her marriage
Cameroon
"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
Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29067 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Native with one of his two wives. Her capeblouse is made from red bandana handkerchiefs
40-88-20/76388.1.22 Native with one of his two wives. Her capeblouse is made from red bandana handkerchiefs
Jalisco
"Move": 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)
2001.29.30765 "Move": 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
Gao of Band 2 sitting by his fire with his two wives, Be (behind him) and Khuan//a (right); Khuan//a is cracking a tsi nut
2001.29.14567 Gao of Band 2 sitting by his fire with his two wives, Be (behind him) and Khuan//a (right); Khuan//a is cracking a tsi nut
Gautscha
Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son
2001.29.23285 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting in front of Gau's skerm, with a child standing next to her, Gau and one of his wives sitting in the skerm
2001.29.14826 Woman sitting in front of Gau's skerm, with a child standing next to her, Gau and one of his wives sitting in the skerm
Gautscha
Groups, Extended Family: N!ai (/Ti!kay's second wife) nursing a baby, sitting with !Ghia of Band 10, /Naoka (sister of /Ti!kay's wives' mother, /Goishay), /Naoka (/Ti!kay's first wife) with her back to the camera and Bau
2001.29.3046 Groups, Extended Family: N!ai (/Ti!kay's second wife) nursing a baby, sitting with !Ghia of Band 10, /Naoka (sister of /Ti!kay's wives' mother, /Goishay), /Naoka (/Ti!kay's first wife) with her back to the camera and Bau
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Move": 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)
2001.29.30765.1 "Move": 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
[No folder title]: 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)
2001.29.30097 [No folder title]: 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
Ngwagetse standing, Genitsu and Rukan (his wives) standing in the background
2001.29.19889 Ngwagetse standing, Genitsu and Rukan (his wives) standing in the background
Manatse