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Di!ai ("Gao Medicine's" wife) wearing headband and bracelets, close-up, with a child next to her (print is a cropped image)
Di!ai ("Gao Medicine's" wife) wearing headband and bracelets, close-up, with a child next to her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.13700
Display Title Di!ai ("Gao Medicine's" wife) wearing headband and bracelets, close-up, with a child next to her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Object Description Stapled to paper: "!Kung ornaments - head band of ostrich egg shell beads/bracelets of fiber, of grass, and of beads"
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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
Di!ai's ("Gao Medicine's" wife) arm and head, seen from behind; a child next to her
2001.29.19223 Di!ai's ("Gao Medicine's" wife) arm and head, seen from behind; a child next to her
Gautscha
Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
2001.29.1860 Groups: Group of people sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire, including a boy playing a //guashi, //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine") wearing a brown headband, Khwo//o (right background), !U wearing ornaments, !Ungka (≠Toma's sister), Di!ai (left, leaning forward), and Be and Khuan//a in the background (left)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai ("Gao Medicine's" wife), half figure, standing
2001.29.19224 Di!ai ("Gao Medicine's" wife), half figure, standing
Gautscha
Di!ai, with cords tied around her chest and fiber cord bracelets
2001.29.28967 Di!ai, with cords tied around her chest and fiber cord bracelets
Nama Pan
Di!ai, with cords tied around her chest and fiber cord bracelets
2001.29.23172 Di!ai, with cords tied around her chest and fiber cord bracelets
Nama Pan
Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
2001.29.22093 Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Ornament: /Gam wearing many ornaments, including a headband, cowrie shells, rectangular bead ornaments, beads around her neck and upper arm bracelets
2001.29.31998 Ornament: /Gam wearing many ornaments, including a headband, cowrie shells, rectangular bead ornaments, beads around her neck and upper arm bracelets
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28800 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes
2001.29.22887 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
2001.29.2823 Children, Mother and children: Woman wearing fiber bracelets, copper ring on a string of beads in her hair, a triangular ostrich eggshell bead ornament, and sha sha (root used in the choa ceremony), standing and holding a baby
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma wearing a coat and a group of standing children including Debe ("Gao Medicine's" and Di!ai's son), /Gaishay, !Ungka Norna, Bau to the right, and other unidentified people
2001.29.22732 ≠Toma wearing a coat and a group of standing children including Debe ("Gao Medicine's" and Di!ai's son), /Gaishay, !Ungka Norna, Bau to the right, and other unidentified people
Nyae Nyae Conservancy