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Object Number 2001.29.14377
Display Title "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with "Old ≠Toma" sitting behind him
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition III b/w 120
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
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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Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25103 Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assagai blade, with "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25869 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assagai blade, with "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assagai blade, "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25869.1 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assagai blade, "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
2001.29.30023 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
2001.29.30023.1 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31912 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching
2001.29.14374 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching
Gautscha
"Band 2, Gao Helmet #28": "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, and sitting with his second wife //Kushay (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30007 "Band 2, Gao Helmet #28": "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, and sitting with his second wife //Kushay (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay
2001.29.25867 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade
2001.29.25868 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
2001.29.14376 "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
2001.29.14375 "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
Gautscha