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Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Object Number 2001.29.528
Display Title Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Descriptions
Object Description Girls playing the melon-tossing game. Photographs by Robert Gesteland, 1957-58.
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Artist Robert C. Gesteland
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Tsumkwe
Materials Slide, color
Dimensions Overall: 5.715 × 5.715 cm (2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.844 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.526 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.525 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.532 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.527 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.531 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.530 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
2001.29.529 Girls playing N!owa T'ama (the melon-tossing game)
Tsumkwe
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31345 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344.1 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
2001.29.22978 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Girls playing N!owa T’ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.3285 Girls playing N!owa T’ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Tsumkwe