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Digging stick (giraffe bone)
Digging stick (giraffe bone)
Object Number 2004.24.32753
Display Title Digging stick (giraffe bone)
Descriptions
Object Description digging stick Ju Wasi
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Gathering
  • digging stick
Department Photographic
Date 1991
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • San
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Additional Geographic Terms Nyae Nyae Area; Kalahari Desert
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30214 Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30198 Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick
2001.29.30198.1 Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30214.1 Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13644 Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25098 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25099 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25097 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy