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//Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame
//Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame
Object Number 2001.29.14802
Display Title //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame
Descriptions
Object Description 1952-1953 Graflex photographs
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: 12.065 × 9.525 cm (4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Living places, shelters": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30865 "Living places, shelters": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people sitting, including !Ungka (sister of //Kushay), "/Qui Navel," //Kushay holding "Little ≠Gao," and //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine," wife of Crooked /Qui)
2001.29.14800 Group of people sitting, including !Ungka (sister of //Kushay), "/Qui Navel," //Kushay holding "Little ≠Gao," and //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine," wife of Crooked /Qui)
Gautscha
Food, Eating: !U beside her fire with !Ungka Norna and Tsamgao, with her skerm and the skerm of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay in the background
2001.29.1669 Food, Eating: !U beside her fire with !Ungka Norna and Tsamgao, with her skerm and the skerm of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Qui Navel" seated with three unidentified boys beside him and //Kushay digging a hole to build a skerm
2001.29.22161 "/Qui Navel" seated with three unidentified boys beside him and //Kushay digging a hole to build a skerm
Nama Pan
"/Qui Navel" seated with three unidentified boys beside him and //Kushay digging a hole to build a skerm
2001.29.28266 "/Qui Navel" seated with three unidentified boys beside him and //Kushay digging a hole to build a skerm
Nama Pan
Group of people sitting, including !Ungka (sister of //Kushay), "/Qui Navel," //Kushay holding "Little ≠Gao," and //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine," wife of Crooked /Qui)
2001.29.26130 Group of people sitting, including !Ungka (sister of //Kushay), "/Qui Navel," //Kushay holding "Little ≠Gao," and //Khuga (daughter of "Gao Medicine," wife of Crooked /Qui)
Gautscha
!Ungka (daughter of "Old Gau" and sister of //Kushay) sitting, with scarification on her face visible
2001.29.14784 !Ungka (daughter of "Old Gau" and sister of //Kushay) sitting, with scarification on her face visible
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U
2001.29.14984 "/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U
Cho/ana
"/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26296.1 "/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U (print is a cropped image)
Cho/ana
Bathing: //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") sitting, washing herself near the pan, with "Little ≠Gao" standing next to her
2001.29.1297 Bathing: //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") sitting, washing herself near the pan, with "Little ≠Gao" standing next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!Ungka (daughter of "Old Gau" and sister of //Kushay) sitting
2001.29.14783 !Ungka (daughter of "Old Gau" and sister of //Kushay) sitting
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26296 "/Qui Navel" in trance beginning to cure !Ungka Norna who is held by her mother, !U (print is a cropped image)
Cho/ana