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Water: Women sitting in the shade and putting ostrich egg shells into a kaross
Water: Women sitting in the shade and putting ostrich egg shells into a kaross
Object Number 2001.29.2247
Display Title Water: Women sitting in the shade and putting ostrich egg shells into a kaross
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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Water: /Naoka (Ti!kay's first wife) carrying a child on her shoulder, leaning down to pick up an Ovambo pot full of water, with another child standing next to her and Bau helping a girl putting an ostrich eggshell in her kaross
2001.29.2233 Water: /Naoka (Ti!kay's first wife) carrying a child on her shoulder, leaning down to pick up an Ovambo pot full of water, with another child standing next to her and Bau helping a girl putting an ostrich eggshell in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: Three men filling ostrich egg shells at a waterhole, with two women sitting behind them
2001.29.2229 Water: Three men filling ostrich egg shells at a waterhole, with two women sitting behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.2230 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.3181 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
2001.29.3182 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31161 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31163 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Group of women and children in the shade including Khuan//a, /Gaishay drinking from an ostrich egg, Debe, and Bau ("Crooked /Qui's" daughter)
2001.29.22870 Group of women and children in the shade including Khuan//a, /Gaishay drinking from an ostrich egg, Debe, and Bau ("Crooked /Qui's" daughter)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of women and children in the shade including Khuan//a, /Gaishay drinking from an ostrich egg, Debe, and Bau ("Crooked /Qui's" daughter) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28786 Group of women and children in the shade including Khuan//a, /Gaishay drinking from an ostrich egg, Debe, and Bau ("Crooked /Qui's" daughter) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
2001.29.22943 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
Nama Pan
Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
2001.29.1856 Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31162 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan