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Skerm: Woman standing inside Bo's skerm, which was built primarily for shade
Skerm: Woman standing inside Bo's skerm, which was built primarily for shade
Object Number 2001.29.2132
Display Title Skerm: Woman standing inside Bo's skerm, which was built primarily for shade
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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Skerm: Bau (Bo's wife) sitting inside their skerm, which was built primarily for shade
2001.29.2130 Skerm: Bau (Bo's wife) sitting inside their skerm, which was built primarily for shade
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm: Bo (brother of /Naoka) sitting inside his skerm, which was built primarily for shade
2001.29.2131 Skerm: Bo (brother of /Naoka) sitting inside his skerm, which was built primarily for shade
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm: Bo (brother of /Naoka) sitting in his skerm, which was built primarily for shade
2001.29.2123 Skerm: Bo (brother of /Naoka) sitting in his skerm, which was built primarily for shade
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather
2001.29.14207 Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather
Gautscha
"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30856.1 "Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30856 "Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Skerm: Branches closing the opening of a skerm; the people are away temporarily, left some things inside and closed up the skerm with branches
2001.29.2128 Skerm: Branches closing the opening of a skerm; the people are away temporarily, left some things inside and closed up the skerm with branches
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
2001.29.2143 Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
2001.29.31237 "Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
2001.29.31237.1 "Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
2001.29.31237.2 "Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": Be (Bo's daughter) putting veldkos into her kaross like a grown woman
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)
2001.29.1924 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