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Image Not Available for Modern style skerm under construction, showing poles in place and roof top to one side minus before thatching
Modern style skerm under construction, showing poles in place and roof top to one side minus before thatching
Image Not Available for Modern style skerm under construction, showing poles in place and roof top to one side minus before thatching
Object Number 2001.29.9516
Display Title Modern style skerm under construction, showing poles in place and roof top to one side minus before thatching
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Tsumkwe
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Hut built of wooden poles and a thatched roof; the door is locked with a forked, wooden pole (print is a cropped image)
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Naulila