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!Gai scraping a hide
Object Number 2001.29.20373
Display Title !Gai scraping a hide
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Laurence Marshall
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Gau /U Pan
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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!Gai sharpening edge of his scraping tool against the metal point of his drill
2001.29.20371 !Gai sharpening edge of his scraping tool against the metal point of his drill
/Gau /U Pan
!Gai scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26902 !Gai scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
!Gai sharpening the edge of his scraping tool, close-up
2001.29.20372 !Gai sharpening the edge of his scraping tool, close-up
/Gau /U Pan
Gai scraping a hide
2001.29.6973 Gai scraping a hide
/Gau /U Pan
!Gai sharpening edge of his scraping tool against the metal point of his drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26900 !Gai sharpening edge of his scraping tool against the metal point of his drill (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
!Gai sharpening the edge of his scraping tool, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26901 !Gai sharpening the edge of his scraping tool, close-up (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
/Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20868 /Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27249 /Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai cooking a turtle, scraping the turtle meat into the mortar with the fire paddle
2001.29.24951 !Gai cooking a turtle, scraping the turtle meat into the mortar with the fire paddle
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai scraping turtle meat into a mortar with a fire paddle
2001.29.27103 !Gai scraping turtle meat into a mortar with a fire paddle
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30394 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting on a hide, scraping it with an adze, with the scrapings in a bowl and on the hide in front of him
2001.29.15940 Man sitting on a hide, scraping it with an adze, with the scrapings in a bowl and on the hide in front of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy