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Two children
Object Number 2004.24.6860C
Display Title Two children
Descriptions
Object Description a) Well kept native children, b) Native woman, c) Over fed children
Subject
  • Child
  • Medical Condition
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1920
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Bene
  • Fang
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 11.43 cm (2 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Two children in white dresses
2004.24.6860A Two children in white dresses
Cameroon
Native woman with hair decoration possible cowry shells, earrrings and necklace
2004.24.6860B Native woman with hair decoration possible cowry shells, earrrings and necklace
Cameroon
Children, Socialization--hunting, carrying: Two little children playing with digging sticks, imitating women nearby gathering veldkos
2001.29.1543 Children, Socialization--hunting, carrying: Two little children playing with digging sticks, imitating women nearby gathering veldkos
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Woman with scarification, wearing blue beads, sitting and nursing a child
2001.29.2842 Children, Mother and children: Woman with scarification, wearing blue beads, sitting and nursing a child
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Socialization--hunting, carrying: Woman leaning over three little children playing with digging sticks, imitating women nearby gathering veldkos
2001.29.1542 Children, Socialization--hunting, carrying: Woman leaning over three little children playing with digging sticks, imitating women nearby gathering veldkos
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: Woman with scarification leaning against a skerm, nursing a child; showing belongings in bags, baby's haircut and sinew wrapped around body
2001.29.1375 Children, Mothers nursing babies: Woman with scarification leaning against a skerm, nursing a child; showing belongings in bags, baby's haircut and sinew wrapped around body
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Woman sitting, with a child standing on her
2001.29.2838 Children, Mother and children: Woman sitting, with a child standing on her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31144 [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman with two children wearing necklaces and girdles made of shell money
2004.29.23272 Woman with two children wearing necklaces and girdles made of shell money
Vanuatu
Malo Island
/Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich egg while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft
2001.29.22872 /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich egg while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1360 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
2001.29.1724 Food Gathering, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
Nyae Nyae Conservancy