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Scraping Skin: Bo wearing a badger cap, with a small skin on the ground in front of him
Scraping Skin: Bo wearing a badger cap, with a small skin on the ground in front of him
Object Number 2001.29.2147
Display Title Scraping Skin: Bo wearing a badger cap, with a small skin on the ground in front of him
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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Scraping Skin: Bo working on a small skin
2001.29.2148 Scraping Skin: Bo working on a small skin
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Scraping Skin: Bo working on a small skin
2001.29.2149 Scraping Skin: Bo working on a small skin
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Clothes: "Old !Naishi" wearing a badger cap, sitting with his feet tucked up under him, filing an arrowpoint with a file given to him by the expedition
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Scraping Skin: /Ti!kay scraping a skin, with two boys sitting next to him
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Scraping Skin: Man sitting with a skin tied to his toes, pulling on it to stretch it
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Scraping Skin: Man scraping a gemsbok skin
2001.29.2146 Scraping Skin: Man scraping a gemsbok skin
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Arrows: Bo (father of /Gunda) wearing an extra skin for holding arrows at his waist, demonstrating how to hold a bow
2001.29.2795 Arrows: Bo (father of /Gunda) wearing an extra skin for holding arrows at his waist, demonstrating how to hold a bow
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Scraping Skin: Two women walking, one with a child on her back, with a skin stretched and pegged out in the foreground to dry for several days
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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2001.29.1294 Bag making: Man making a skin bag from the whole skin of a wart hog, with four young men sitting behind him and a tortoise shell hanging in a nearby tree with bow and quiver
Gautscha