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Group of people sitting, including a woman with a baby on her back in her kaross and a woman wrapped in a striped blanket with a child between her legs
Group of people sitting, including a woman with a baby on her back in her kaross and a woman wrapped in a striped blanket with a child between her legs
Object Number 2001.29.17091
Display Title Group of people sitting, including a woman with a baby on her back in her kaross and a woman wrapped in a striped blanket with a child between her legs
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Woman wearing a kaross, sitting, with a woman wrapped in a blanket sitting with a child between her legs in the background, a man digging behind her
2001.29.17089 Woman wearing a kaross, sitting, with a woman wrapped in a blanket sitting with a child between her legs in the background, a man digging behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman wrapped in a striped blanket, with a child between her legs, sitting with a group of people, with assegais stuck into the ground near them
2001.29.17088 Woman wrapped in a striped blanket, with a child between her legs, sitting with a group of people, with assegais stuck into the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Child sleeping on a kaross between a man and a woman sitting; the woman has a mortar and pestle between her legs
2001.29.16060 Child sleeping on a kaross between a man and a woman sitting; the woman has a mortar and pestle between her legs
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Child sleeping on a kaross between a man and a woman sitting; the woman has a mortar and pestle between her legs
2001.29.16053 Child sleeping on a kaross between a man and a woman sitting; the woman has a mortar and pestle between her legs
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting with her kaross wrapped around her legs, smoking a pipe, with two boys standing next to her
2001.29.16799 Woman sitting with her kaross wrapped around her legs, smoking a pipe, with two boys standing next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman carrying her baby tied on her back in her kaross, walking, with a child walking behind her, view from behind
2001.29.15684 Woman carrying her baby tied on her back in her kaross, walking, with a child walking behind her, view from behind
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: ≠Toma's sister sitting and her child standing, with an elderly woman wrapped in kaross lying on the ground nearby
2001.29.5705 Children, Mothers nursing babies: ≠Toma's sister sitting and her child standing, with an elderly woman wrapped in kaross lying on the ground nearby
Gautscha
Woman sitting next to a skerm working on something, with a child sitting between her legs
2001.29.16403 Woman sitting next to a skerm working on something, with a child sitting between her legs
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31161 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Food Gathering, Children: Woman putting her baby into her kaross, with her digging stick on the ground next to her
2001.29.1725 Food Gathering, Children: Woman putting her baby into her kaross, with her digging stick on the ground next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
N!ai wearing a kaross wrapped around her, washing clothes at the edge of a pan, with her digging stick on the ground next to her, view from behind
2001.29.15527 N!ai wearing a kaross wrapped around her, washing clothes at the edge of a pan, with her digging stick on the ground next to her, view from behind
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman wearing a towel on her shoulder, sitting, holding her baby tied in her kaross
2001.29.15203 Woman wearing a towel on her shoulder, sitting, holding her baby tied in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy