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Scraping Skin: ≠Toma wearing around his neck a roll of brown cord made from roots, holding a small skin and sitting with "Old ≠Toma"
Scraping Skin: ≠Toma wearing around his neck a roll of brown cord made from roots, holding a small skin and sitting with "Old ≠Toma"
Object Number 2001.29.2150
Display Title Scraping Skin: ≠Toma wearing around his neck a roll of brown cord made from roots, holding a small skin and sitting with "Old ≠Toma"
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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!U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
2001.29.16834 !U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma wearing a skin hat, holding an animal skin on his lap, sitting with a group of men
2001.29.16002 ≠Toma wearing a skin hat, holding an animal skin on his lap, sitting with a group of men
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma wearing a skin hat, cutting strips of skin with a large knife, sitting with a group of people near a skerm
2001.29.15988 ≠Toma wearing a skin hat, cutting strips of skin with a large knife, sitting with a group of people near a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
2001.29.16100 ≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skin: ≠Toma and "Old ≠Toma" working on a skin together
2001.29.3166 Skin: ≠Toma and "Old ≠Toma" working on a skin together
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma wearing a skin hat, carrying tin cans over his shoulder with carrying stick, with a boy walking next to him, partially constructed shelter skerms in the background
2001.29.16727 ≠Toma wearing a skin hat, carrying tin cans over his shoulder with carrying stick, with a boy walking next to him, partially constructed shelter skerms in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
2001.29.14755 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
Gautscha
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
2001.29.26092.1 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
Gautscha
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
2001.29.26092.2 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
Gautscha
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
2001.29.26092.3 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
Gautscha
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
2001.29.26092 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2 and Gau holding a kaross up against a skerm, showing the pattern on it created by scraping part of the hair off the animal skin
Gautscha
≠Toma scraping a skin in front of a shelter skerm
2001.29.16835 ≠Toma scraping a skin in front of a shelter skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy