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Image Not Available for Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
Image Not Available for Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
Object Number 2001.29.2105
Display Title Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
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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Image Not Available for Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
2001.29.2106 Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him; he is scraping the ashes with something
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him
2001.29.2093 Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting next to the ashes of a fire, with a wooden container on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Food, Meat: "Old Gau" sitting beside the ashes of his fire, with /Gishay sitting next to him, strips of meat hanging on a tree branch in the background
2001.29.1707 Food, Meat: "Old Gau" sitting beside the ashes of his fire, with /Gishay sitting next to him, strips of meat hanging on a tree branch in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Portraits: Woman sitting by the ashes of a fire in front of a skerm
2001.29.2095 Portraits: Woman sitting by the ashes of a fire in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Food, Eating: "Old /Gishay" cooking in the ashes of a fire
2001.29.2993 Food, Eating: "Old /Gishay" cooking in the ashes of a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
2001.29.14836 ≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
Gautscha
≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
2001.29.14835 ≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
Gautscha
≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
2001.29.14834 ≠Gao (brother of "Old Gau") sitting next to the ashes of a fire with his wife, Khwo//o-/Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay"), their son, Gao, ≠Gisa, ≠Gisa's mother and Khuan//a (wife of //Ao and sister of Khwo//o-/Gasa)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting, with a mortar on the ground in front of him, skerm in the background
2001.29.3133 Portraits: "Old /Gishay" sitting, with a mortar on the ground in front of him, skerm in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Fire, "Old ≠Toma's": People looking for beads in the ashes from "Old ≠Toma's" skerm, burned to the ground
2001.29.1637 Fire, "Old ≠Toma's": People looking for beads in the ashes from "Old ≠Toma's" skerm, burned to the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Eating: Girl cooking something in the ashes of a fire
2001.29.11903.1 Children, Eating: Girl cooking something in the ashes of a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Eating: Girl cooking something in the ashes of a fire
2001.29.11903.3 Children, Eating: Girl cooking something in the ashes of a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy