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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
Object Number 2001.29.2106
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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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
2001.29.2105 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
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
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
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
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
≠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)
2001.29.14836 ≠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
Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves and an ostrich eggshell next to him
2001.29.16207 Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves and an ostrich eggshell next to him
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)
2001.29.14834 ≠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
Children, Mother and children: !U sitting by the ashes of her fire, a child standing against her, with a person standing next to her skerm in the background
2001.29.2840 Children, Mother and children: !U sitting by the ashes of her fire, a child standing against her, with a person standing next to her skerm in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
2001.29.2987 Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves next to him
2001.29.16206 Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy