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Groups, "Nuclear Family": N!ai, the morning after her wedding, standing in front of her skerm, with her mother Di!ai preparing tsi to wash her ceremonially, /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) and a little girl next to her
Groups, "Nuclear Family": N!ai, the morning after her wedding, standing in front of her skerm, with her mother Di!ai preparing tsi to wash her ceremonially, /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) and a little girl next to her
Object Number 2001.29.3059
Display Title Groups, "Nuclear Family": N!ai, the morning after her wedding, standing in front of her skerm, with her mother Di!ai preparing tsi to wash her ceremonially, /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) and a little girl next to her
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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Marriage: N!ai wearing an undergarment, standing and being anointed with fat and tsi by Di!ai the morning after her wedding
2001.29.3077 Marriage: N!ai wearing an undergarment, standing and being anointed with fat and tsi by Di!ai the morning after her wedding
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"N!ai the morning after her wedding anointed by her mother with cooked and pounded tsi": Di!ai anointing "Little N!ai" with tsi in the early morning after her wedding of the night before (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29915 "N!ai the morning after her wedding anointed by her mother with cooked and pounded tsi": Di!ai anointing "Little N!ai" with tsi in the early morning after her wedding of the night before (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Di!ai anointing "Little N!ai" with tsi in the early morning after her wedding of the night before
2001.29.14581 Di!ai anointing "Little N!ai" with tsi in the early morning after her wedding of the night before
Gautscha
Children, Music: N!ai sitting on a termite mound playing a //guashi, with !Ungka Norna tied to her back, Bau and /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) sitting next to her
2001.29.2949 Children, Music: N!ai sitting on a termite mound playing a //guashi, with !Ungka Norna tied to her back, Bau and /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) sitting next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31070 [No folder title]: "The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife)
2001.29.21959 "The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife)
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31427 "The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
/Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying down with /Gaishay about to lie beside her and Di!ai nursing Debe in the background
2001.29.28219 /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying down with /Gaishay about to lie beside her and Di!ai nursing Debe in the background
Nama Pan
/Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right
2001.29.22097 /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right
Nama Pan
/Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying down with /Gaishay about to lie beside her and Di!ai nursing Debe in the background
2001.29.22104 /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying down with /Gaishay about to lie beside her and Di!ai nursing Debe in the background
Nama Pan
"Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30710.1 "Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman sitting and holding her hand in front of her face, with /Gaishay leaning against her, and Di!ai with Debe on her back
2001.29.28081 Woman sitting and holding her hand in front of her face, with /Gaishay leaning against her, and Di!ai with Debe on her back
Nama Pan