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Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Object Number 2001.29.14564
Display Title Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition III b/w 120; Written on Sleeve: "There is an / enlarged / negative of / this picture"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Negative, 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
2001.29.25106 Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
Gautscha
Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
2001.29.26006 Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Gautscha
Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
2001.29.26006.1 Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Gautscha
Bau (wife of Bo) sitting inside a skerm, nursing her child
2001.29.14447 Bau (wife of Bo) sitting inside a skerm, nursing her child
Gautscha
≠Nisa pounding something, possibly tsi, sitting with //Ao in front of their skerm
2001.29.13926 ≠Nisa pounding something, possibly tsi, sitting with //Ao in front of their skerm
Gautscha
Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
2001.29.2143 Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Woman sitting with a child inside a skerm
2001.29.29901 [No folder title]: Woman sitting with a child inside a skerm
Gautscha
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
Groups, Extended Family: Gau hammering something with a stone, sitting with his family in front of a skerm
2001.29.1923 Groups, Extended Family: Gau hammering something with a stone, sitting with his family in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls wearing hair ornaments, sitting in front of a skerm
2001.29.14511 Girls wearing hair ornaments, sitting in front of a skerm
Gautscha
Woman sitting inside a skerm, mixing something in a tin cup, with belongings hanging on the skerm, an animal hide and a kaross on the ground in front of it
2001.29.16103 Woman sitting inside a skerm, mixing something in a tin cup, with belongings hanging on the skerm, an animal hide and a kaross on the ground in front of it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Kumsa cutting something next to a tree, children watching; seated women and skerms in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29476 Kumsa cutting something next to a tree, children watching; seated women and skerms in the background (print is a cropped image)
Cuando Cubango