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Group of women and children sitting in front of a skerm, including a boy cracking nuts with a stone, a woman stringing ostrich eggshell beads and a woman holding a metal spoon
Group of women and children sitting in front of a skerm, including a boy cracking nuts with a stone, a woman stringing ostrich eggshell beads and a woman holding a metal spoon
Object Number 2001.29.16159
Display Title Group of women and children sitting in front of a skerm, including a boy cracking nuts with a stone, a woman stringing ostrich eggshell beads and a woman holding a metal spoon
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
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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Group of women and children sitting in front of a skerm, including a boy cracking nuts with a stone and a woman stringing ostrich eggshell beads
2001.29.16158 Group of women and children sitting in front of a skerm, including a boy cracking nuts with a stone and a woman stringing ostrich eggshell beads
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Two women sitting in front of a skerm, one cracking nuts
2001.29.17272 Two women sitting in front of a skerm, one cracking nuts
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" and another man standing, carrying their hunting equipment, including an assegai, with a group of people sitting, cracking mangetti nuts near them
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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
Woman sitting, cracking nuts, with two children sitting next to her, eating
2001.29.16733 Woman sitting, cracking nuts, with two children sitting next to her, eating
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting by a fire, cracking nuts, side view, with a blanket hanging in a tree near her, skerm in the background
2001.29.16775 Woman sitting by a fire, cracking nuts, side view, with a blanket hanging in a tree near her, skerm in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with a string of beads on a piece of burlap next to her
2001.29.15674 Woman sitting, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with a string of beads on a piece of burlap next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with a string of beads on a piece of burlap next to her
2001.29.15675 Woman sitting, stringing ostrich eggshell beads, with a string of beads on a piece of burlap next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman cracking mangetti nuts, with a skerm in the background
2001.29.31994 Woman cracking mangetti nuts, with a skerm in the background
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Boy cracking tsi from an enamel dish, sitting with his family in front of their skerm
2001.29.15102 Boy cracking tsi from an enamel dish, sitting with his family in front of their skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm with smoke from a fire blowing across it, with a pile of nuts and an ostrich eggshell on the ground next to it
2001.29.16191 Skerm with smoke from a fire blowing across it, with a pile of nuts and an ostrich eggshell on the ground next to it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Two women sitting, cracking nuts, with a child with a bandaged foot lying on the ground between them
2001.29.16819 Two women sitting, cracking nuts, with a child with a bandaged foot lying on the ground between them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy