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Grass, brush, and a skerm in the background
Grass, brush, and a skerm in the background
Object Number 2001.29.19867
Display Title Grass, brush, and a skerm in the background
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Kgalagari
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi
Additional Geographic Terms Near Manatse
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
Grass, brush, and a skerm in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26551 Grass, brush, and a skerm in the background (print is a cropped image)
Ghanzi
Werft: Group of boys walking through brush and grass, with "Gao Helmet's" skerm (right), tree next to a dance circle (center) and N!ai's marriage skerm (left) in the background
2001.29.2281 Werft: Group of boys walking through brush and grass, with "Gao Helmet's" skerm (right), tree next to a dance circle (center) and N!ai's marriage skerm (left) in the background
Gautscha
Two men fixing the grass at the bottom of a skerm, with a man holding a bow standing behind them, another skerm in the background
2001.29.15398 Two men fixing the grass at the bottom of a skerm, with a man holding a bow standing behind them, another skerm in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm: Uncompleted skerm by a tree, with grass in the background
2001.29.6017 Skerm: Uncompleted skerm by a tree, with grass in the background
Gautscha
Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
2001.29.2143 Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Fire-Making, "Old ≠Toma's" skerm: Child sitting on a grass bed inside a skerm, next to a newly started fire
2001.29.2984 Fire-Making, "Old ≠Toma's" skerm: Child sitting on a grass bed inside a skerm, next to a newly started fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man carrying a bundle of grass for making a skerm, with an expedition member standing in front of a tent in the background
2001.29.15916 Man carrying a bundle of grass for making a skerm, with an expedition member standing in front of a tent in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
2001.29.25106 Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
Gautscha
Grass with brush and scrub trees on the horizon
2001.29.19816 Grass with brush and scrub trees on the horizon
Kutse
Man putting a bundle of grass on a pile next to a skerm, with another man kneeling, putting grass on the skerm
2001.29.15917 Man putting a bundle of grass on a pile next to a skerm, with another man kneeling, putting grass on the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Track through grass left by expedition truck, with brush in the background
2001.29.12155 Track through grass left by expedition truck, with brush in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm: Woman clearing away grass from a place in order to build a skerm
2001.29.2133 Skerm: Woman clearing away grass from a place in order to build a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy