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Man fixing a woman's arm ornaments, sitting with a group of people next to a skerm
Man fixing a woman's arm ornaments, sitting with a group of people next to a skerm
Object Number 2001.29.16009
Display Title Man fixing a woman's arm ornaments, sitting with a group of people next to a skerm
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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Man fixing a woman's arm ornaments, sitting with a group of people
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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!Naishi chopping a log with an axe to make a //guashi, with //Ao sitting next to him, people sitting in the background, including Nicholas England
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Qui Umbilicus" using a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
2001.29.16212 "/Qui Umbilicus" using a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ornaments": Group of women and girls sitting, and one woman fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30779 "Ornaments": Group of women and girls sitting, and one woman fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Ornament: Group of women sitting closely together in front of a skerm, with Khuan//a fixing another woman's earring
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16375 /Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man lying on the ground, sleeping, with a woman wearing ornaments in her hair sitting with his family behind him
2001.29.15381 Man lying on the ground, sleeping, with a woman wearing ornaments in her hair sitting with his family behind him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of men sitting next to a fire in front of a skerm, one playing the //guashi, another stirring nuts in the fire, with hunting equipment hanging in the skerm behind them
2001.29.17387 Group of men sitting next to a fire in front of a skerm, one playing the //guashi, another stirring nuts in the fire, with hunting equipment hanging in the skerm behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting, with his arms resting on his knees
2001.29.15139 Man sitting, with his arms resting on his knees
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting next to a skerm, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with finished necklaces and a pile of beads on a kaross on the ground next to her
2001.29.16069 Woman sitting next to a skerm, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with finished necklaces and a pile of beads on a kaross on the ground next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Three men sitting in front of a skerm at night
2001.29.17250 Three men sitting in front of a skerm at night
Nyae Nyae Conservancy