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Women standing with ostrich feathers in her hair at the Eland Dance
Women standing with ostrich feathers in her hair at the Eland Dance
Object Number 2001.29.7966
Display Title Women standing with ostrich feathers in her hair at the Eland Dance
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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Little girl walking with an ostrich feather in her hair, women and children sitting in a patch of shade behind her
2001.29.7899 Little girl walking with an ostrich feather in her hair, women and children sitting in a patch of shade behind her
Gwia
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 		2001.29.7983 !Ungka standing, women around her performing the Eland Dance
Gwia
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.7970 Women, some seated, some standing, in the shade at a pause in the Eland Dance
Gwia
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.7982 Women standing in a group, one of the women is crouched beside the little girl who is enacting the menstruating girl for the Eland Dance
Gwia
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.7967 Four women standing not wearing karosses before the Eland Dance, seen from behind
Gwia
Man and woman sitting, man holding two ostrich feathers
2001.29.7863 Man and woman sitting, man holding two ostrich feathers
Gwia
Hunting, Ostrich: Group of people clustered around a dead ostrich, many wearing feathers in their hair and one man wearing a helmet
2001.29.253.18 Hunting, Ostrich: Group of people clustered around a dead ostrich, many wearing feathers in their hair and one man wearing a helmet
Gautscha
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.24677 Women sitting and standing in the shade, pausing from performing the Eland Dance (copy of color slide 2001.29.7970)
Gwia
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.24678 Women sitting and standing in the shade, pausing from performing the Eland Dance (copy of color slide 2001.29.7970)
Gwia
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.24679 Women sitting and standing in the shade, pausing from performing the Eland Dance (copy of color slide 2001.29.7970)
Gwia
Hunting, Ostrich: Man and two women dancing with ostrich feathers in the werft
2001.29.5899 Hunting, Ostrich: Man and two women dancing with ostrich feathers in the werft
Gautscha
Dance: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) with a feather in her hair, dancing with the men at a daytime dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1598 Dance: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) with a feather in her hair, dancing with the men at a daytime dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy