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Image Not Available for Skerm: Skerm with no top but with bedding grass, branches, and large ash piles
Skerm: Skerm with no top but with bedding grass, branches, and large ash piles
Image Not Available for Skerm: Skerm with no top but with bedding grass, branches, and large ash piles
Object Number 2001.29.6023
Display Title Skerm: Skerm with no top but with bedding grass, branches, and large ash piles
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Skerm: Branches on the ground, with grass laid partway to top
2001.29.6014 Skerm: Branches on the ground, with grass laid partway to top
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Windbreak type of skerm, showing branches and grass on one side only, and a tree with a person's possessions
2001.29.6018 Skerm: Windbreak type of skerm, showing branches and grass on one side only, and a tree with a person's possessions
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Windbreak type of skerm, with branches and grass on one side only
2001.29.6016 Skerm: Windbreak type of skerm, with branches and grass on one side only
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Man, a woman, and a child sitting under branches to be made into a skerm
2001.29.6010 Skerm: Man, a woman, and a child sitting under branches to be made into a skerm
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Ashes and branches on the ground
2001.29.6033 Skerm: Ashes and branches on the ground
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Uncompleted skerm by a tree, with grass in the background
2001.29.6017 Skerm: Uncompleted skerm by a tree, with grass in the background
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Man, a woman, a child sitting under trees, with ashes and branches on the ground
2001.29.6035 Skerm: Man, a woman, a child sitting under trees, with ashes and branches on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Skerm: Skerms of bushes with grass laid on top
2001.29.6011 Skerm: Skerms of bushes with grass laid on top
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Groups: Group of people sitting by a tree, obscured by branches in the background and skerms
2001.29.5859 Groups: Group of people sitting by a tree, obscured by branches in the background and skerms
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Skerm: Person building a skerm, applying grass to poles already in place
2001.29.253.7 Skerm: Person building a skerm, applying grass to poles already in place
Gautscha
Image Not Available for /Ti!kay and ǂToma working over an ostrich, piles of meat on branches and the women dancing in the background
2001.29.7911 /Ti!kay and ǂToma working over an ostrich, piles of meat on branches and the women dancing in the background
Gwia
Image Not Available for Skerm: Skerm with branches closing the opening, with two other skerms next to it
2001.29.2135 Skerm: Skerm with branches closing the opening, with two other skerms next to it
Gautscha