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Object Number 2001.29.722
Display Title Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 × 2.5 cm (1 3/8 × 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Top: "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe; bottom: Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross; bottom: woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross
2001.29.25102 Top: "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe; bottom: Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross; bottom: woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Ornaments & beads": Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30793.1 "Ornaments & beads": Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "Ornaments & beads": Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30793 "Ornaments & beads": Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13688 Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Two headbands, belt, tortoise shell, and strings of beads displayed on a kaross
2001.29.19226 Two headbands, belt, tortoise shell, and strings of beads displayed on a kaross
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Di!ai (/Qui's wife) sitting and a child standing, with body ornaments displayed on a kaross on the ground in front of them
2001.29.12002 Di!ai (/Qui's wife) sitting and a child standing, with body ornaments displayed on a kaross on the ground in front of them
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Di!ai's (/Qui's wife) body ornaments displayed on a kaross, including a U.S. Army button
2001.29.12038 Di!ai's (/Qui's wife) body ornaments displayed on a kaross, including a U.S. Army button
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Body ornaments displayed on a kaross
2001.29.12039 Body ornaments displayed on a kaross
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Breechclout displayed on a kaross laid on the ground
2001.29.19233 Breechclout displayed on a kaross laid on the ground
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Leather apron, beaded apron, headband, and shells displayed on a kaross
2001.29.19221 Leather apron, beaded apron, headband, and shells displayed on a kaross
Gautscha
Two headbands, belt, tortoise shell, and strings of beads displayed on a kaross
2001.29.13702 Two headbands, belt, tortoise shell, and strings of beads displayed on a kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman wearing many ornaments, sitting on her kaross in front of a skerm, working on something
2001.29.16165 Woman wearing many ornaments, sitting on her kaross in front of a skerm, working on something
Nyae Nyae Conservancy