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Child sitting with a staff member by a fire, with pots of food cooking on the fire, skerms in the background
Child sitting with a staff member by a fire, with pots of food cooking on the fire, skerms in the background
Object Number 2001.29.15533
Display Title Child sitting with a staff member by a fire, with pots of food cooking on the fire, skerms in the background
Descriptions
Object Description Expedition VI b/w 120
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Bantu speaking peoples
  • 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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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Gautscha
Man walking toward a fire with an iron pot on it, distant view, with another man standing in the background, skerms behind him
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of women and children preparing nuts, sitting inside a skerm, with a pot of food cooking on a fire near them
2001.29.15564 Group of women and children preparing nuts, sitting inside a skerm, with a pot of food cooking on a fire near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man and woman cooking at a fire, with a skerm in the background
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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2001.29.16389 Woman standing with four children in the werft, with smoke from a fire and skerms in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy