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Women dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
Women dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
Object Number 2001.29.7958
Display Title Women dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
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 dancing around a skerm in which a girl pretending to be in her first menstruation ceremony is lying, her kaross on the ground
2001.29.7959 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
"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
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.30900 "Rite of First Menstruation": //Kushay (wife of ≠Toma) rubbing her daughter with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance (print is a cropped image)
Gwia
Women dancing around a skerm
2001.29.7965 Women dancing around a skerm
Gwia
Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
2001.29.1856 Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm
2001.29.1855 Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sleeping in his skerm during the menstruation ceremony
2001.29.24264 /Ti!kay sleeping in his skerm during the menstruation ceremony
Gwia
[No folder title]: /Ti!kay sleeping in his skerm during the menstruation ceremony
2001.29.30567 [No folder title]: /Ti!kay sleeping in his skerm during the menstruation ceremony
Gwia
/Naoka wearing a kaross wrapped around her, sitting in front of a skerm, reaching inside a bowl with her hand
2001.29.15384 /Naoka wearing a kaross wrapped around her, sitting in front of a skerm, reaching inside a bowl with her hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka lying in front of skerm, adjusting her kaross
2001.29.340 /Naoka lying in front of skerm, adjusting her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
2001.29.7868 Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
Gwia
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.3 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha