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"Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him
"Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him
Object Number 2001.29.14341
Display Title "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition III b/w 120
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Mangetti Forest
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 × 6.35 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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2001.29.25843.1 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
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"Old Demi" sitting in /Ti!kay's werft, his wife is beside him, and another woman with mangettis in the background
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