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Nearly completed skerm, with a tree in front of it
Nearly completed skerm, with a tree in front of it
Object Number 2001.29.15953
Display Title Nearly completed skerm, with a tree in front of it
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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Child standing in front of a skerm, with ostrich egg shells on the ground, tin cans on top of the skerm, possessions hanging in a nearby tree
2001.29.15436 Child standing in front of a skerm, with ostrich egg shells on the ground, tin cans on top of the skerm, possessions hanging in a nearby tree
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2001.29.17059 Four skerms in front of a baobab tree
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2001.29.17066 Four skerms in front of a baobab tree
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2001.29.17340 !Naishi sitting, holding a nearly completed //guashi, reaching for a tool
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Expedition equipment sitting on logs in front of a skerm, with drying meat and belongings hanging from a tree in the background
2001.29.16064 Expedition equipment sitting on logs in front of a skerm, with drying meat and belongings hanging from a tree in the background
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Two men setting up poles for a triangle skerm, with the structure of a circular skerm behind them, hunting bags hanging from a tree near them
2001.29.15946 Two men setting up poles for a triangle skerm, with the structure of a circular skerm behind them, hunting bags hanging from a tree near them
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Four boys climbing a tree, with a woman drilling ostrich eggshell beads inside a skerm next to the tree
2001.29.16065 Four boys climbing a tree, with a woman drilling ostrich eggshell beads inside a skerm next to the tree
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Man sitting in the entrance of a skerm near a tree
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People sitting in front of a skerm, with two pots cooking on a fire in the foreground, strips of meat hanging from a tree branch over the skerm
2001.29.16133 People sitting in front of a skerm, with two pots cooking on a fire in the foreground, strips of meat hanging from a tree branch over the skerm
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Boy in a tree, with N!ai and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of children at the base of the tree, skerms in the background
2001.29.17014 Boy in a tree, with N!ai and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of children at the base of the tree, skerms in the background
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