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Family sitting next to a fire preparing food, with a child standing next to them
Family sitting next to a fire preparing food, with a child standing next to them
Object Number 2001.29.15437
Display Title Family sitting next to a fire preparing food, with a child standing next to them
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition VI b/w 120
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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2001.29.15422 Woman wearing ornaments in her hair, squatting, with a child standing next to her
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2001.29.16191 Skerm with smoke from a fire blowing across it, with a pile of nuts and an ostrich eggshell on the ground next to it
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2001.29.15400 Tsamgao wearing Western clothing, standing, looking down, with a woman sitting, two boys lying down on the ground near him, kaross hanging on a wooden post near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy