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Food, Eating: Di!ai using a tortoise shell to clear ashes from her fire
Food, Eating: Di!ai using a tortoise shell to clear ashes from her fire
Object Number 2001.29.2994
Display Title Food, Eating: Di!ai using a tortoise shell to clear ashes from her fire
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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Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her
2001.29.22886 Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Eating: "Old /Gishay" cooking in the ashes of a fire
2001.29.2993 Food, Eating: "Old /Gishay" cooking in the ashes of a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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
2001.29.2987 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
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
2001.29.22781 Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
2001.29.22780 Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
2001.29.22783 Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
2001.29.22782 Di!ai using a stick to prod a wildebeest head in a hole with coals
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
Ceremony, Choa: Group of people participating in a choa ceremony, including N!ai (/Naoka's sister, second wife of /Ti!kay) with her son Gao in the foreground, /Naoka (wife of /Ti!kay), Bau (/Naoka's daughter), and /Naoka (sister of /Naoka's mother, /Goishay), with Khokove using a fire paddle to cover tsi with ashes and a man working on an animal skin
2001.29.1336 Ceremony, Choa: Group of people participating in a choa ceremony, including N!ai (/Naoka's sister, second wife of /Ti!kay) with her son Gao in the foreground, /Naoka (wife of /Ti!kay), Bau (/Naoka's daughter), and /Naoka (sister of /Naoka's mother, /Goishay), with Khokove using a fire paddle to cover tsi with ashes and a man working on an animal skin
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28799 Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
2001.29.1860 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Preparation: Girl and a child eating, sitting by ashes
2001.29.5782 Food, Preparation: Girl and a child eating, sitting by ashes
Gautscha