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Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
Object Number 2001.29.2987
Display Title Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to 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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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Eating: Di!ai using a tortoise shell to clear ashes from her fire
2001.29.2994 Food, Eating: Di!ai using a tortoise shell to clear ashes from her fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Meat: "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam starting to cook meat in the ashes of a fire, with a man from a visiting band sitting at a polite distance from their fire
2001.29.3005 Food, Meat: "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam starting to cook meat in the ashes of a fire, with a man from a visiting band sitting at a polite distance from their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves and an ostrich eggshell next to him
2001.29.16207 Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves and an ostrich eggshell next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
2001.29.705 "Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
2001.29.704 "Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
2001.29.13599 "Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
2001.29.13598 "Gao Medicine's" possessions, including rattles, oracle disks, an Ovambo pot, ostrich egg shells, quiver, and cord; ashes from a fire in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" covering an animal cooking in coals and hot ashes underground
2001.29.1658 Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" covering an animal cooking in coals and hot ashes underground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" cooking an animal head in coals and hot ashes in a covered pit
2001.29.1659 Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" cooking an animal head in coals and hot ashes in a covered pit
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" covering an animal head cooking in coals and hot ashes underground
2001.29.1660 Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" covering an animal head cooking in coals and hot ashes underground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Elderly woman poking animal head in ashes, with a boy beside her
2001.29.5777 Food, Cooking: Elderly woman poking animal head in ashes, with a boy beside her
Gautscha