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Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Object Number 2001.29.2116
Display Title Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
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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Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2114 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
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2001.29.28853 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28854 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22990 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22989 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting inside a skerm, mixing something in a tin cup, with belongings hanging on the skerm, an animal hide and a kaross on the ground in front of it
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman making red-wood powder to be smeared on body
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