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Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments
Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments
Object Number 2001.29.17983
Display Title Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1950
Culture
  • Ovambo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Ovamboland
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 × 2.5 cm (1 3/8 × 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Glossy duplicates of / 1950 Merl La Voy prints / 400 series": Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31598 "Glossy duplicates of / 1950 Merl La Voy prints / 400 series": Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13184 Woman sitting with her back to the camera, wearing ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Ovamboland
Clothes: Woman wearing sandals (with a view of the bottom of them), ornaments and a cloth headband, sitting with a child wearing bead ornaments and something around his neck
2001.29.1565 Clothes: Woman wearing sandals (with a view of the bottom of them), ornaments and a cloth headband, sitting with a child wearing bead ornaments and something around his neck
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her
2001.29.14019 Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her
Gautscha
Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25650 Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.1 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.2 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross
2001.29.14520 Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross
Gautscha
"Carrying children": Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31260 "Carrying children": Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing ornaments in her hair and a little kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman wearing apron and bead hair ornaments, standing and carrying a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25536 Woman wearing apron and bead hair ornaments, standing and carrying a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman wearing many head ornaments, sitting, resting her chin in her hand
2001.29.15150 Woman wearing many head ornaments, sitting, resting her chin in her hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy