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Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.13644
Display Title Four men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Object Description Stapled to paper: "305-18/1951/!Kung Bushmen digging for the pupa of poison beetles which, bury themselves during part of their life cycle under certain marulu trees."
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Four Ju/'hoan men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks
2001.29.19165 Four Ju/'hoan men digging for poison beetle larva with digging sticks
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30292 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30293 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Close-up of a person's fingers taking the poison beetle larva out of its shell
2001.29.27515 Close-up of a person's fingers taking the poison beetle larva out of its shell
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25425 "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
"Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25426 "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25101 Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30393 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30433 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30434 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Poison: Men digging for poisonous beetle larvae under a marulu tree, close-up
2001.29.2065 Poison: Men digging for poisonous beetle larvae under a marulu tree, close-up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Poison: People digging for poisonous beetle larvae under a marula tree near Cho/ana, with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas watching them (half of stereoview 2001.29.6292)
2001.29.2062 Poison: People digging for poisonous beetle larvae under a marula tree near Cho/ana, with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas watching them (half of stereoview 2001.29.6292)
Kaudom National Park