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Elderly woman lying, covered with ashes, and a group of people sitting in the background
Elderly woman lying, covered with ashes, and a group of people sitting in the background
Object Number 2001.29.3581
Display Title Elderly woman lying, covered with ashes, and a group of people sitting in the background
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
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
Groups: Group of people sitting around ashes of fire, with a man working in the background
2001.29.5840 Groups: Group of people sitting around ashes of fire, with a man working in the background
Gautscha
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) drinking from an ostrich eggshell, and Be and Khuan//a together behind them
2001.29.1857 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) drinking from an ostrich eggshell, and Be and Khuan//a together behind them
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
Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing ant hill, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
2001.29.1859 Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing ant hill, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
Gautscha
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), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
2001.29.1861 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), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Hair Cutting: Men lying and sitting around ashes of fire
2001.29.5881 Hair Cutting: Men lying and sitting around ashes of fire
Gautscha
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Be and Khuan//a
2001.29.1878 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including Khwo//o (right), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Be and Khuan//a
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Sleep: Group of people sitting near ashes, with other people wrapped in karosses sleeping nearby
2001.29.6044 Sleep: Group of people sitting near ashes, with other people wrapped in karosses sleeping nearby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Group of people sitting around ashes of fire
2001.29.5854 Groups: Group of people sitting around ashes of fire
Gautscha
Groups, Men: Group of people sitting by ashes of fire, with one wearing western clothes
2001.29.5870 Groups, Men: Group of people sitting by ashes of fire, with one wearing western clothes
Gautscha
Skerm: Group of people sitting by fire ashes and an uncompleted skerm; one of them is pounding something in a mortar
2001.29.6007 Skerm: Group of people sitting by fire ashes and an uncompleted skerm; one of them is pounding something in a mortar
Gautscha