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"Old /Gam," with something on her lips (print is a cropped image)
"Old /Gam," with something on her lips (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.32686
Display Title "Old /Gam," with something on her lips (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on board: "Kung Bushman / (verso) Kung Bushman"
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 Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 33.0201 × 26.6701 cm (13 × 10 1/2 in.)
Historical Language
Museum staff recognize the offensive nature of the term "!Kung" in describing the photographed individuals. The term is listed here as it is part of the original documentation of past collecting practices and past methods of analysis. Museum staff recognize the offensive nature of the term "Bushman" in describing individuals. The term is listed here as it is part of the original documentation of past collecting practices and past methods of analysis.
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Old /Gam," with something on her lips
2001.29.14495 "Old /Gam," with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Old /Gam," with something on her lips
2001.29.658 "Old /Gam," with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Old /Gam" with something on her lips
2001.29.25978.1 "Old /Gam" with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Old /Gam" with something on her lips
2001.29.25978 "Old /Gam" with something on her lips
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Kuan//a, "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma"), unidentified girl in front of "Old /Gam" (possibly Khuan//a, daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa, granddaughter of "Old /Gam"), and Be (first wife of Gau) sitting in front; and "Old ≠Toma" sitting in back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29276 [No folder title]: Kuan//a, "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma"), unidentified girl in front of "Old /Gam" (possibly Khuan//a, daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa, granddaughter of "Old /Gam"), and Be (first wife of Gau) sitting in front; and "Old ≠Toma" sitting in back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27034 /Twikwe sitting and eating, cutting food off at her lips; N!whakwe standing at her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Khwo//o-/Gasa looking at a child, with ostrich eggshell beads on a kaross on the ground in front of her, sitting with "Old /Gam" who is looking at something in her hand
2001.29.14823 Khwo//o-/Gasa looking at a child, with ostrich eggshell beads on a kaross on the ground in front of her, sitting with "Old /Gam" who is looking at something in her hand
Gautscha
Children, Eating: "Old /Gam" chewing something and about to give it to her granddaughter Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa)
2001.29.2804 Children, Eating: "Old /Gam" chewing something and about to give it to her granddaughter Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" preparing a piece of skin, other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30427.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" preparing a piece of skin, other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy