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Little girl walking with an ostrich feather in her hair, women and children sitting in a patch of shade behind her
Little girl walking with an ostrich feather in her hair, women and children sitting in a patch of shade behind her
Object Number 2001.29.7899
Display Title Little girl walking with an ostrich feather in her hair, women and children sitting in a patch of shade behind her
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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Women and children sitting in a patch of shade
2001.29.7900 Women and children sitting in a patch of shade
Gwia
Women standing with ostrich feathers in her hair at the Eland Dance
2001.29.7966 Women standing with ostrich feathers in her hair at the Eland Dance
Gwia
Women and children sitting in a patch of shade waiting for their share of ostrich meat
2001.29.7898 Women and children sitting in a patch of shade waiting for their share of ostrich meat
Gwia
Children, Portraits: "Little ≠Gao" wearing an ostrich feather in his hair, sitting on a termite mound
2001.29.1445 Children, Portraits: "Little ≠Gao" wearing an ostrich feather in his hair, sitting on a termite mound
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: /Naoka (Ti!kay's first wife) carrying a child on her shoulder, leaning down to pick up an Ovambo pot full of water, with another child standing next to her and Bau helping a girl putting an ostrich eggshell in her kaross
2001.29.2233 Water: /Naoka (Ti!kay's first wife) carrying a child on her shoulder, leaning down to pick up an Ovambo pot full of water, with another child standing next to her and Bau helping a girl putting an ostrich eggshell in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Women and children sitting in the shade
2001.29.7902 Women and children sitting in the shade
Gwia
Children, Eating: !U sitting by the pan holding !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut) on her lap, with ostrich egg shells beside her
2001.29.1349 Children, Eating: !U sitting by the pan holding !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut) on her lap, with ostrich egg shells beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Portraits: ≠Gisa wearing ornaments, including tsi, white beads around her neck and ostrich eggshell bead ornaments in her hair
2001.29.2867 Children, Portraits: ≠Gisa wearing ornaments, including tsi, white beads around her neck and ostrich eggshell bead ornaments in her hair
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
2001.29.2823 Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Eating: !U sitting by the pan holding !Ungka Norna (after her haircut) on her lap, with ostrich egg shells beside her
2001.29.11902 Children, Eating: !U sitting by the pan holding !Ungka Norna (after her haircut) on her lap, with ostrich egg shells beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children in groups": /Naoka, wife of Ti!kay, drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with !Nani behind her, and /Khoa, her daughter, standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31211 "Children in groups": /Naoka, wife of Ti!kay, drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with !Nani behind her, and /Khoa, her daughter, standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Little girl holding a beer can
2001.29.7867 Little girl holding a beer can
Gwia