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Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) beginning to go into trance
Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) beginning to go into trance
Object Number 2001.29.14901
Display Title Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) beginning to go into trance
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: 9.525 × 12.065 cm (3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Night dance, /Gunda beginning to go into trance
2001.29.26213 Night dance, /Gunda beginning to go into trance
Gautscha
Group of people in an intermission in a night dance, including "Gao Medicine" wrapped in a blanket, /Gunda (N!ai's husband) standing in front of him, //Ao wearing a white shirt and ≠Toma wearing a white shirt and shorts, with his back to the camera
2001.29.14904 Group of people in an intermission in a night dance, including "Gao Medicine" wrapped in a blanket, /Gunda (N!ai's husband) standing in front of him, //Ao wearing a white shirt and ≠Toma wearing a white shirt and shorts, with his back to the camera
Gautscha
Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) in trance
2001.29.14902 Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) in trance
Gautscha
Group of people in an intermission in a night dance, including "Gao Medicine" wrapped in a blanket, /Gunda (N!ai's husband) standing in front of him, //Ao wearing a white shirt and ≠Toma wearing a white shirt and shorts, with his back to the camera
2001.29.26216 Group of people in an intermission in a night dance, including "Gao Medicine" wrapped in a blanket, /Gunda (N!ai's husband) standing in front of him, //Ao wearing a white shirt and ≠Toma wearing a white shirt and shorts, with his back to the camera
Gautscha
//Ao holding a spear, standing with /Gunda (husband of N!ai) in front of a skerm
2001.29.14885 //Ao holding a spear, standing with /Gunda (husband of N!ai) in front of a skerm
Gautscha
//Ao (son of "Old ≠Toma") and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a, husband of N!ai) standing in front of a skerm
2001.29.14884 //Ao (son of "Old ≠Toma") and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a, husband of N!ai) standing in front of a skerm
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Ngani with a trance-like expression, dancing with others in a night dance
2001.29.14912 Ngani with a trance-like expression, dancing with others in a night dance
Gautscha
Group of people beginning a night dance
2001.29.14898 Group of people beginning a night dance
Gautscha
Men dancing in a circle behind the women in a curing dance; shows Ngani, wearing shorts, beginning to go into trance
2001.29.14989 Men dancing in a circle behind the women in a curing dance; shows Ngani, wearing shorts, beginning to go into trance
Cho/ana
/Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, with a woman sitting next to them also drinking from an eggshell
2001.29.25775 /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, with a woman sitting next to them also drinking from an eggshell
Gautscha