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"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.800
Display Title "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term ‘’!Oeh /xoa !Aqi / !Oeh /xoa G!o’e !Husi / Tani /xoa !Aqi ‘’Maq ≠aah” ≠Oqi tsan ku !oeh /xoa /Ui-ma ko !aqi, kuitzia si!a ku kuia //’ae waqnsi
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 adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 20.828 × 17.272 cm (8 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Expedition, Photography: Two boys carrying "Little ≠Gao" in a kaross, playing the "airplane game," with Lorna Marshall standing near them holding her helmet over a camera lens
2001.29.2399 Expedition, Photography: Two boys carrying "Little ≠Gao" in a kaross, playing the "airplane game," with Lorna Marshall standing near them holding her helmet over a camera lens
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.800.1 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played
2001.29.14093 Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling two babies on a kaross, with Be watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31486.1 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling two babies on a kaross, with Be watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) pulling /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31488 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) pulling /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao and another boy pulling Norna and "Little ≠Gao" on a kaross, with Di!ai, ≠Toma's sister !Ungka, and ≠Toma watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31487 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao and another boy pulling Norna and "Little ≠Gao" on a kaross, with Di!ai, ≠Toma's sister !Ungka, and ≠Toma watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) pulling Debe who sits on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31490 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) pulling Debe who sits on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) pulling Debe who sits on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31489 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son) and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) pulling Debe who sits on a kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling two babies on a kaross, with Be watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31486 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling two babies on a kaross, with Be watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling /Qui (son of Khuan//a) on gemsbok horns, with Be watching them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31485 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and an unidentified boy pulling /Qui (son of Khuan//a) on gemsbok horns, with Be watching them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma) and ≠Gau (son of Gau) carrying "Little ≠Gao" in a kaross, playing "the airplane game"
2001.29.31491 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma) and ≠Gau (son of Gau) carrying "Little ≠Gao" in a kaross, playing "the airplane game"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1)
2001.29.13923 Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1)
Gautscha