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Child leaning over to pick up a tsama melon, with another child tossing a melon near a tree in the background
Child leaning over to pick up a tsama melon, with another child tossing a melon near a tree in the background
Object Number 2001.29.15785
Display Title Child leaning over to pick up a tsama melon, with another child tossing a melon near a tree in the background
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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[No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
2001.29.30977.1 [No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan
[No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
2001.29.30977.2 [No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan
[No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
2001.29.30977 [No folder title]: Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
2001.29.20696 Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27124 Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31345 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
2001.29.22978 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Mogatsiposi lying on her side nursing child, in front of pile of tsama melons
2001.29.20029 Mogatsiposi lying on her side nursing child, in front of pile of tsama melons
Chukudu Kraal
Mogatsiposi lying on her side nursing child, in front of pile of tsama melons
2001.29.26674 Mogatsiposi lying on her side nursing child, in front of pile of tsama melons
Chukudu Kraal
Woman and child gathering, with tsama melons lying on the ground near them
2001.29.15790 Woman and child gathering, with tsama melons lying on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344.1 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Child dropping a tsama melon
2001.29.15786 Child dropping a tsama melon
Nyae Nyae Conservancy