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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 2001.29.7959
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
2001.29.7958 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
Sãõ?//e playing an axe blade, with women standing and clapping behind her, near a skerm used for the menstruating girl in the Eland Dance
2001.29.8618 Sãõ?//e playing an axe blade, with women standing and clapping behind her, near a skerm used for the menstruating girl in the Eland Dance
!Go Tsao
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 		2001.29.24686 Women performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a circle around a skerm (copy of color slide 2001.29.7973)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.24687 Women performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a circle around a skerm (copy of color slide 2001.29.7973)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.24688 Women performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a circle around a skerm (copy of color slide 2001.29.7973)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.30603.1 [No folder title]: Women performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a circle around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.7973)
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
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 		2001.29.686 Women performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a circle around a skerm
Gwia
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 		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
"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