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Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
Object Number 2001.29.7868
Display Title Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ngamiland (North West) / Cgae Cgae Tlhabologo Trust / Gwia
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2114 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2116 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2115 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30899 "Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22988 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Red Powder: Woman sitting and using a stone to pound red powder to use on her kaross
2001.29.2117 Red Powder: Woman sitting and using a stone to pound red powder to use on her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Women dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
2001.29.7958 Women dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
Gwia
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28853 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28854 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22990 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22989 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
2001.29.16834 !U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy