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Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her (print is a cropped image)
Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.13239
Display Title Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Artist Merl La Voy
Culture
  • Ovambo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Ovamboland
Africa / Angola
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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Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her
2001.29.18182 Woman sitting and looking at camera, with sacks on the ground next to her
Ovamboland
"1950 '400 Series' / 87 B/W prints (some duplicates) / Ovamboland": Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31668 "1950 '400 Series' / 87 B/W prints (some duplicates) / Ovamboland": Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
"1950 '400 Series' / 87 B/W prints (some duplicates) / Ovamboland": Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31669 "1950 '400 Series' / 87 B/W prints (some duplicates) / Ovamboland": Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Woman sitting, with a group under the trees in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13240 Woman sitting, with a group under the trees in the background (print is a cropped image)
Angola
Ovamboland
Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain
2001.29.17948 Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain
Ovamboland
Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain
2001.29.17947 Women standing near sacks and baskets of grain
Ovamboland
"Boys playing at hunting": "/Gao Music" and another man going hunting, carrying their hunting equipment in their hunting sacks over their shoulders (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30281 "Boys playing at hunting": "/Gao Music" and another man going hunting, carrying their hunting equipment in their hunting sacks over their shoulders (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people near and inside a skerm in the background, with possessions hanging on a tree in the foreground, including quiver sacks with bows, assegais, tin cans, cups and buckets; ostrich egg shells and a blanket on the ground next to the tree
2001.29.15045 Group of people near and inside a skerm in the background, with possessions hanging on a tree in the foreground, including quiver sacks with bows, assegais, tin cans, cups and buckets; ostrich egg shells and a blanket on the ground next to the tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people lying in the shade behind a tree with possessions hanging on it, including quiver sacks with bows, assegais, tin cans, cups and buckets; ostrich egg shells and a blanket on the ground next to the tree
2001.29.15046 Group of people lying in the shade behind a tree with possessions hanging on it, including quiver sacks with bows, assegais, tin cans, cups and buckets; ostrich egg shells and a blanket on the ground next to the tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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 (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13184 Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Women pouring grain from sack into tins (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13120 Women pouring grain from sack into tins (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland