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Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, including Khuan//a (right), with two men walking in the background
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, including Khuan//a (right), with two men walking in the background
Object Number 2001.29.2049
Display Title Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, including Khuan//a (right), with two men walking in the background
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1951-1953
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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Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
2001.29.2050 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
2001.29.2048 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
2001.29.2047 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm
2001.29.2051 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
2001.29.2042 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together
2001.29.2046 Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) drinking from an ostrich eggshell, and Be and Khuan//a together behind them
2001.29.1857 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) drinking from an ostrich eggshell, and Be and Khuan//a together behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
2001.29.1860 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of women sitting closely together, including !Ungka (right) with N!ai next to her, and ≠Toma's sister in the background
2001.29.451 Groups: Group of women sitting closely together, including !Ungka (right) with N!ai next to her, and ≠Toma's sister in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
2001.29.1861 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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
Groups, Extended Family: Gau's family sitting in front of a skerm (left to right): ≠Toma, !Naishi, Be their mother, Gau, /Qui held by Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), /Gunda (husband of N!ai and son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be)
2001.29.1926 Groups, Extended Family: Gau's family sitting in front of a skerm (left to right): ≠Toma, !Naishi, Be their mother, Gau, /Qui held by Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), /Gunda (husband of N!ai and son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy