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≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing the crescent shape of its original structure and the more nearly rounded shell of a newly built part
≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing the crescent shape of its original structure and the more nearly rounded shell of a newly built part
Object Number 2001.29.8386
Display Title ≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing the crescent shape of its original structure and the more nearly rounded shell of a newly built part
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 11/1/1961-11/13/1961
Culture
  • !Xóõ?
  • Naro
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / !Go Tsao
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing the crescent shape of its original structure and the more nearly rounded shell of a newly built part
2001.29.8385 ≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing the crescent shape of its original structure and the more nearly rounded shell of a newly built part
!Go Tsao
≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing its supporting branches entwined at the top, with a child standing in the center
2001.29.8384 ≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e's skerm, showing its supporting branches entwined at the top, with a child standing in the center
!Go Tsao
≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e making a rain skerm
2001.29.8380 ≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e making a rain skerm
!Go Tsao
≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e extending both sides of a rain skerm to make a half circle
2001.29.8383 ≠Nisa n!a and Sãõ?//e extending both sides of a rain skerm to make a half circle
!Go Tsao
N//ana, her husband //Hao/ó (son of Sãó?//e), and their two children sitting near their skerm
2001.29.8407 N//ana, her husband //Hao/ó (son of Sãó?//e), and their two children sitting near their skerm
!Go Tsao
Group of women standing next to a tree, including (right to left) N/kxabe, Dadum, "Old ≠Nisa," Sãõ?//e behind her, and N≠am N/o (daughter of /Gaishay)
2001.29.8576 Group of women standing next to a tree, including (right to left) N/kxabe, Dadum, "Old ≠Nisa," Sãõ?//e behind her, and N≠am N/o (daughter of /Gaishay)
!Go Tsao
Group of women standing next to a tree, including (right to left) N/kxabe, Dadum, "Old ≠Nisa," Sãõ?//e behind her, and N≠am N/o (daughter of /Gaishay)
2001.29.8577 Group of women standing next to a tree, including (right to left) N/kxabe, Dadum, "Old ≠Nisa," Sãõ?//e behind her, and N≠am N/o (daughter of /Gaishay)
!Go Tsao
Woman digging a hole with her digging stick in which to stand one of the supporting branches of a skerm
2001.29.8381 Woman digging a hole with her digging stick in which to stand one of the supporting branches of a skerm
!Go Tsao
N//ana, her husband //Hao/ó (son of Sãó?//e), and their two children sitting near their skerm
2001.29.8406 N//ana, her husband //Hao/ó (son of Sãó?//e), and their two children sitting near their skerm
!Go Tsao
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
Woman digging a hole with her digging stick in which to stand one of the supporting branches of a skerm
2001.29.8382 Woman digging a hole with her digging stick in which to stand one of the supporting branches of a skerm
!Go Tsao
Kid bleating for its mother
2001.29.8331 Kid bleating for its mother
!Go Tsao