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Image Not Available for Animal skin being worked, person with a deformed hand
Animal skin being worked, person with a deformed hand
Image Not Available for Animal skin being worked, person with a deformed hand
Object Number 2001.29.19604
Display Title Animal skin being worked, person with a deformed hand
Descriptions
Object Description Written on negative envelope: "Okwa fire making."
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • !Xóõ?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / Okwa
Materials Negative, 35mm
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
Image Not Available for Animal skin being worked (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26354 Animal skin being worked (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
Image Not Available for Animal skin being worked
2001.29.19602 Animal skin being worked
Okwa
Image Not Available for Animal skin being worked (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26353 Animal skin being worked (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
Image Not Available for 5 men working on an animal skin
2001.29.19603 5 men working on an animal skin
Okwa
Image Not Available for Man working on an animal skin, holding it with his foot
2001.29.19657 Man working on an animal skin, holding it with his foot
Okwa
Image Not Available for Firesticks held in position for fire making
2001.29.19608 Firesticks held in position for fire making
Okwa
Image Not Available for ǂGasa working on an animal skin, close-up
2001.29.32603 ǂGasa working on an animal skin, close-up
Okwa
Image Not Available for Firesticks on tinder after twirling
2001.29.19613 Firesticks on tinder after twirling
Okwa
Image Not Available for Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood
2001.29.19612 Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood
Okwa
Image Not Available for Man sharpening a stick
2001.29.19605 Man sharpening a stick
Okwa
Image Not Available for Person sewing, close-up of hands using awl to make a hole for putting a cord through
2001.29.21394 Person sewing, close-up of hands using awl to make a hole for putting a cord through
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for Person's hands putting a foreshaft into the main shaft of an arrow
2001.29.21216 Person's hands putting a foreshaft into the main shaft of an arrow
/Ai Ha !O Pan