Group of women sitting in a circle singing and clapping, with men dancing behind them in a curing dance

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Object Number 2001.29.14981

Display Title Group of women sitting in a circle singing and clapping, with men dancing behind them in a curing dance

Descriptions

Object Description 1952-53 Graflex photographs

Department Photographic

Date 3/1/1953

Culture

Ju/'hoansi

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Namibia / Kavango East / Kaudom National Park / Tsoana

Materials Negative, black and white

Dimensions Overall: 10.16 × 13.335 cm (4 × 5 1/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Provenance

Donor Lorna Marshall

Donor John Marshall

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Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
2001.29.14983	Men dancing behind a circle of women sitting, singing and clapping for a curing dance	Tsoana
2001.29.14990	Men dancing in a circle behind the women in a curing dance	Tsoana
2001.29.14989	Men dancing in a circle behind the women in a curing dance; shows Ngani, wearing shorts, beginning to go into trance	Tsoana
2001.29.30410	"Ngami in trance, Tsho/ana": Group of women sitting in a circle singing and clapping, with men dancing behind them (print is a cropped image)	Tsoana
2001.29.26292	Women seated in a circle singing and clapping, the men dancing behind them (print is a cropped image)	Tsoana
2001.29.14982	//Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") and another woman (probably daughter of Debe, headman of Band 24) singing and clapping for a curing dance, close-up	Tsoana
2001.29.14978	Men preparing to start dancing in a curing dance, including (right to left) "/Qui Navel", ≠Gao of Band 3, Ngani, and //Ao	Tsoana
2001.29.14980	Men beginning to dance in a curing dance	Tsoana
2001.29.14979	Man putting on dance rattles for a curing dance	Tsoana
2001.29.14977	People participating in a curing dance, with others from Muremi's kraal present	Tsoana
2001.29.14987	"/Qui Navel" singing medicine songs while holding his son, "Little ≠Gao," on his shoulders and ≠Toma standing to the right wearing a hat	Tsoana
2001.29.14988	Ngani, close-up, and an unidentified man in the background, at a curing dance	Tsoana

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