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[No folder title]: Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.657
Display Title [No folder title]: Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Object Description Tsamgao, ≠Toma’s son, with his own homemade “camera,” 1955. Photograph probably by Daniel Blitz.
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.066 x 16.764 cm (7 7/8 x 6 5/8 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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Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
2001.29.22744 Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
2001.29.28694 Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
2001.29.22745 Tsamgao holding his handmade circular toy up to his eye
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Toys, Playthings: Tsamgao working on his homemade toy car, with other children playing near him
2001.29.31999 Children, Toys, Playthings: Tsamgao working on his homemade toy car, with other children playing near him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Unidentified boy to the left, "Little ≠Gao" playing with a handmade toy automobile made from veldkos, and Debe ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) eating something (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28765 Unidentified boy to the left, "Little ≠Gao" playing with a handmade toy automobile made from veldkos, and Debe ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) eating something (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Unidentified boy to the left, "Little ≠Gao" playing with a handmade toy automobile made from veldkos, and Debe ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) eating something
2001.29.22844 Unidentified boy to the left, "Little ≠Gao" playing with a handmade toy automobile made from veldkos, and Debe ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) eating something
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of !Nai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//kaho (her baby) sitting in the front row (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29272 [No folder title]: Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of !Nai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//kaho (her baby) sitting in the front row (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: ≠Toma working on arrows and sitting with his family members Tsamgao, /Gaishay, and !U holding !Ungka Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29906 [No folder title]: ≠Toma working on arrows and sitting with his family members Tsamgao, /Gaishay, and !U holding !Ungka Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Old Gau," with his foot in the bucket, Tsamgao, son of ≠Toma, and other unidentified people
2001.29.22058 "Old Gau," with his foot in the bucket, Tsamgao, son of ≠Toma, and other unidentified people
Nama Pan
"Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.661.1 "Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of a skerm, including his son ≠Toma (by his first wife), his son !Naishi, Be (his first wife), Gau, Khuan//a (his second wife) and their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son by a first husband), and ≠Gao (son of Be and Gau) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30118 [No folder title]: Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of a skerm, including his son ≠Toma (by his first wife), his son !Naishi, Be (his first wife), Gau, Khuan//a (his second wife) and their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son by a first husband), and ≠Gao (son of Be and Gau) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of a skerm, including ≠Toma (his son with Be), his son !Naishi, his first wife Be, Gau, his second wife Khuan//a and their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son with a first husband), and ≠Gao (his son with Be) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30015.2 [No folder title]: Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of a skerm, including ≠Toma (his son with Be), his son !Naishi, his first wife Be, Gau, his second wife Khuan//a and their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son with a first husband), and ≠Gao (his son with Be) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha