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Image Not Available for Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
Image Not Available for Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
Object Number 2001.29.1403
Display Title Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
Descriptions
Indigenous Term //’Hom xrupu ku n!o’an tamah; ha //’hom-ma ku !aah ≠xuru kxa n!om n/ai kaq’aha n!o’an /’an dshauma ge !an g!oq ko ha te ha ku n≠auh.
Department Photographic
Date 1952
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials slide, 35mm
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 "The 1957-8 Games": //Gao and ≠Gisa playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) with their arms around each other, N!ai sitting on the ground clapping, a girl standing against a tree clapping, another girl sitting and clapping
2001.29.31355 "The 1957-8 Games": //Gao and ≠Gisa playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) with their arms around each other, N!ai sitting on the ground clapping, a girl standing against a tree clapping, another girl sitting and clapping
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Groups, play: Girls playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) in a dance circle area, with a pan filled with water in the distance
2001.29.1433 Children, Groups, play: Girls playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) in a dance circle area, with a pan filled with water in the distance
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of women and girls playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) at a tree, with a group of men and boys sitting in the background
2001.29.16902 Group of women and girls playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) at a tree, with a group of men and boys sitting in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing
2001.29.14538 Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing
Gautscha
Group of women and girls playing N≠ahng !Au!uh (the snake game), sitting in a line
2001.29.16946 Group of women and girls playing N≠ahng !Au!uh (the snake game), sitting in a line
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31337 "Women's Ball Game": Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girl catching a ball, with N!ai standing near her, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
2001.29.17165 Girl catching a ball, with N!ai standing near her, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman catching a ball, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game) with a group of women and girls
2001.29.17170 Woman catching a ball, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game) with a group of women and girls
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Boys throwing a djani (helicopter toy), a boy catching it with the tip of his stick
2001.29.17698 Boys throwing a djani (helicopter toy), a boy catching it with the tip of his stick
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31343 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy