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//Oshay being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, //Kushay and other women sitting behind her
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Object Number 2001.29.7988
Display Title //Oshay being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, //Kushay and other women sitting 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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 		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
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 		2001.29.30619.1 [No folder title]: Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (from color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.30619.2 [No folder title]: Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (from color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.7986 //Kushay and other women performing the Eland Dance with beads hanging from their karosses (as is custom in the real ceremony and dance), seen in front of skerm where //Oshay is sitting
Gwia
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 		2001.29.30619 [No folder title]: Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (from color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.24738 Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (copy of color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.24739 Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (copy of color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
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 		2001.29.24737 Girl being rubbed with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance, and a group of women sitting behind her (copy of color slide 2001.29.7988)
Gwia
Food Gathering, Tsi: //Kushay (second wife of Gao Helmet) carrying tsi in her kaross
2001.29.3020 Food Gathering, Tsi: //Kushay (second wife of Gao Helmet) carrying tsi in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups, "Nuclear Family": N!ai, the morning after her wedding, standing in front of her skerm, with her mother Di!ai preparing tsi to wash her ceremonially, /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) and a little girl next to her
2001.29.3059 Groups, "Nuclear Family": N!ai, the morning after her wedding, standing in front of her skerm, with her mother Di!ai preparing tsi to wash her ceremonially, /Gaishay (Di!ai's son) and a little girl next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Mother anointing her child with crushed tsĩ, circle of women in the background
2001.29.24270 Mother anointing her child with crushed tsĩ, circle of women in the background
Gwia
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 		2001.29.30573 [No folder title]: Mother anointing her child with crushed tsĩ, circle of women in the background
Gwia