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Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.736
Display Title Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A !Kung woman digging a root / This picture was published in the South West Africa / Annual, 1956, p. 11"; stamped on photograph: "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
Object Description A !Kung woman digging a root. This picture was published in the South West Africa Annual, 1956, p. 11. Anneliese Scherz-Windhock Box 180. 136-11.
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 18.6 x 15.6 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736.1 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Woman digging veldkos with her digging stick, with her baby tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30079 [No folder title]: Woman digging veldkos with her digging stick, with her baby tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back
2001.29.14394 Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Bau from Band 10 digging for veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30906 [No folder title]: Bau from Band 10 digging for veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31257 "Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29922 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918.1 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Woman holding her digging stick and veldkos, and sitting next to the hole in the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30132 [No folder title]: Woman holding her digging stick and veldkos, and sitting next to the hole in the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30434 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Water": Boy carrying a water bag made from an animal stomach and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, view from behind (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30894 "Water": Boy carrying a water bag made from an animal stomach and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, view from behind (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
2001.29.269 ≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
Gautscha