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Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.13184
Display Title Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Artist Merl La Voy
Culture
  • Ovambo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Ovamboland
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Glossy duplicates of / 1950 Merl La Voy prints / 400 series": Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31598 "Glossy duplicates of / 1950 Merl La Voy prints / 400 series": Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments
2001.29.17983 Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments
Ovamboland
Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13239 Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Angola
Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25650 Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Carrying children": Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31260 "Carrying children": Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.1 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.2 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman wearing apron and bead hair ornaments, standing and carrying a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25536 Woman wearing apron and bead hair ornaments, standing and carrying a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29925 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"1950 '400 Series' / 41 prints": Girl sitting with her back to the camera, showing hairstyle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31709 "1950 '400 Series' / 41 prints": Girl sitting with her back to the camera, showing hairstyle (print is a cropped image)
Ruacana Falls
//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25543 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha