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Portraits: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell bead headdress
Portraits: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell bead headdress
Object Number 2001.29.3134
Display Title Portraits: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell bead headdress
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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Portraits: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell bead headdress
2001.29.3135 Portraits: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell bead headdress
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making cord, sitting with /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and other people in front of a skerm
2001.29.3158 Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making cord, sitting with /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and other people in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups, "Nuclear Family": Group of people sitting by "/Gao Music's" skerm, including Khuan//a ("Gao Medicine's" sister) wearing copper rings in her hair, //Khuga with her hand to her face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife)
2001.29.3063 Groups, "Nuclear Family": Group of people sitting by "/Gao Music's" skerm, including Khuan//a ("Gao Medicine's" sister) wearing copper rings in her hair, //Khuga with her hand to her face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine") emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
2001.29.23107 /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine") emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
2001.29.28916 /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
2001.29.22093 Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30496 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) sitting, "Gao Medicine" to the right, and Bau and /Gaishay standing with their arms around each other
2001.29.21987 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) sitting, "Gao Medicine" to the right, and Bau and /Gaishay standing with their arms around each other
Nama Pan
Group of people sitting, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) with her granddaughter Bau and Gao Medicine, and /Gaishay standing
2001.29.21986 Group of people sitting, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) with her granddaughter Bau and Gao Medicine, and /Gaishay standing
Nama Pan
/Naoka, "Gao Medicine's" first wife, sitting with her granddaughter Bau leaning against her, /Gaishay standing, and Gao Medicine on the right
2001.29.21985 /Naoka, "Gao Medicine's" first wife, sitting with her granddaughter Bau leaning against her, /Gaishay standing, and Gao Medicine on the right
Nama Pan
Group of people sitting, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) with her granddaughter Bau and Gao Medicine, and /Gaishay standing
2001.29.28119.1 Group of people sitting, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) with her granddaughter Bau and Gao Medicine, and /Gaishay standing
Nama Pan