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Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Object Number 2001.29.14384
Display Title Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
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 / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
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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Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30205 Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
2001.29.30205.1 Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Gautscha
Food Gathering, Children: Woman holding a large root she has dug up, sitting with a child next to her, showing her scarification on her face
2001.29.1715 Food Gathering, Children: Woman holding a large root she has dug up, sitting with a child next to her, showing her scarification on her face
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and holding a root she has dug up
2001.29.1757 Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and holding a root she has dug up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, General: Woman holding a root that she has dug
2001.29.5803 Food Gathering, General: Woman holding a root that she has dug
Gautscha
Food Gathering, General: N!ai holding a root she has dug up
2001.29.253.12 Food Gathering, General: N!ai holding a root she has dug up
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Woman sitting in the grass by a hole she made digging up a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30078 [No folder title]: Woman sitting in the grass by a hole she made digging up a root (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30207 Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman holding veldkos, sitting next to the hole she dug it out of
2001.29.14395 Woman holding veldkos, sitting next to the hole she dug it out of
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine" sitting on grass, and Di!ai sitting by the fire and eating something she has pounded in the mortar
2001.29.14085 "Gao Medicine" sitting on grass, and Di!ai sitting by the fire and eating something she has pounded in the mortar
Gautscha
Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and reaching into a hole she has dug
2001.29.1763 Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and reaching into a hole she has dug
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
2001.29.1724 Food Gathering, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
Nyae Nyae Conservancy