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Portrait: Gau
Object Number 2001.29.2098
Display Title Portrait: Gau
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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Portraits: "Old Gau"
2001.29.2088 Portraits: "Old Gau"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old Gau"
2001.29.2089 Portraits: "Old Gau"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old Gau" sitting and scraping something with a knife
2001.29.2092 Portraits: "Old Gau" sitting and scraping something with a knife
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old /Gasa" with her head shaved, sitting with two other people in front of Gau's skerm
2001.29.2097 Portraits: "Old /Gasa" with her head shaved, sitting with two other people in front of Gau's skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: Gau
2001.29.2099 Portraits: Gau
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: Gau (copy of slide 7D-216)
2001.29.13077 Portraits: Gau (copy of slide 7D-216)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old Gau," profile
2001.29.3121 Portraits: "Old Gau," profile
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old Gau" lying down
2001.29.3122 Portraits: "Old Gau" lying down
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portraits: "Old Gau" lying down
2001.29.3130 Portraits: "Old Gau" lying down
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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)
2001.29.1934 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
Children, Mothers nursing babies: Gau (of Band 2) sitting with his family by their skerm, left to right: ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), Be, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and her son /Qui, Gunda (son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and !Naishi (son of Gau and Be)
2001.29.1373 Children, Mothers nursing babies: Gau (of Band 2) sitting with his family by their skerm, left to right: ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), Be, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and her son /Qui, Gunda (son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and !Naishi (son of Gau and Be)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: People sitting in front of Gau's skerm, including "/Qui Hunter" cooking (inside the skerm), "Old Gau" squatting by the entrance, //Khuga (wife of !Naishi), /Naoka, "Old /Gasa" with shaved head, /Qui (son of Gau and Khuan//a), and Be (Gau's first wife)
2001.29.1858 Groups: People sitting in front of Gau's skerm, including "/Qui Hunter" cooking (inside the skerm), "Old Gau" squatting by the entrance, //Khuga (wife of !Naishi), /Naoka, "Old /Gasa" with shaved head, /Qui (son of Gau and Khuan//a), and Be (Gau's first wife)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy