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Ornament: Woman's hair showing many beads
Ornament: Woman's hair showing many beads
Object Number 2001.29.5953
Display Title Ornament: Woman's hair showing many beads
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Stereoview
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Physical Type": Man and Charles O. Handlley Jr. standing, showing height difference
2001.29.5958 "Physical Type": Man and Charles O. Handlley Jr. standing, showing height difference
Gautscha
Ornament: Girl squatting, showing ornaments
2001.29.5948 Ornament: Girl squatting, showing ornaments
Gautscha
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
Ornament: Woman sitting by ornaments spread out on the ground, seen from behind
2001.29.5952 Ornament: Woman sitting by ornaments spread out on the ground, seen from behind
Gautscha
Ornament: Woman adjusting another woman's earring
2001.29.5950 Ornament: Woman adjusting another woman's earring
Gautscha
Ornament: Women adorned with bead ornaments, sitting with another woman and children
2001.29.5954 Ornament: Women adorned with bead ornaments, sitting with another woman and children
Gautscha
Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
2001.29.2823 Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Ornament: Boy wearing headdress of badger hair, squatting
2001.29.5947 Ornament: Boy wearing headdress of badger hair, squatting
Gautscha
Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
2001.29.28559 Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
2001.29.22572 Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31186 [No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan