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"/Gao Music" sits on a hide pegged to the ground, scraping it with his adze
"/Gao Music" sits on a hide pegged to the ground, scraping it with his adze
Object Number 2001.29.16105
Display Title "/Gao Music" sits on a hide pegged to the ground, scraping it with his adze
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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≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
2001.29.16100 ≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music," /Ti!kay and ≠Toma scraping a hide pegged to the ground
2001.29.16106 "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay and ≠Toma scraping a hide pegged to the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" squatting on a hide pegged to the ground, holding a knife
2001.29.16104 "/Gao Music" squatting on a hide pegged to the ground, holding a knife
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30394 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting, leaning against a skerm, a hide pegged to the ground near him, a dried hide on the other side of him
2001.29.16214 Man sitting, leaning against a skerm, a hide pegged to the ground near him, a dried hide on the other side of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting, leaning against a skerm, a hide pegged to the ground near him, a dried hide on the other side of him
2001.29.16213 Man sitting, leaning against a skerm, a hide pegged to the ground near him, a dried hide on the other side of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground
2001.29.15942 Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma sitting on an animal hide, talking to someone out of frame, with two adzes on the hide in front of him, scrapings of the animal hide around him
2001.29.15056 ≠Toma sitting on an animal hide, talking to someone out of frame, with two adzes on the hide in front of him, scrapings of the animal hide around him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting on a hide he has been scraping, fixing his adze
2001.29.15941 Man sitting on a hide he has been scraping, fixing his adze
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music," /Ti!kay and ≠Toma working on a hide pegged to the ground
2001.29.16107 "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay and ≠Toma working on a hide pegged to the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" testing an arrow for straightness, sitting next to a fire outside his skerm, with two ostrich egg shells on the ground near him, assegais leaning against the skerm
2001.29.15858 "/Gao Music" testing an arrow for straightness, sitting next to a fire outside his skerm, with two ostrich egg shells on the ground near him, assegais leaning against the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" holding an arrow, sitting next to a fire outside his skerm, with two ostrich egg shells on the ground near him, assegais leaning against the skerm
2001.29.15857 "/Gao Music" holding an arrow, sitting next to a fire outside his skerm, with two ostrich egg shells on the ground near him, assegais leaning against the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy