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/Gaiamakwe cooking meat in the ashes using a fire paddle
/Gaiamakwe cooking meat in the ashes using a fire paddle
Object Number 2001.29.20606
Display Title /Gaiamakwe cooking meat in the ashes using a fire paddle
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on negative envelope: "child behavior pics. 12 July '55"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist William Donnellan
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Ai Ha !O 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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[No folder title]: /Gaiamakwe cooking meat in the ashes using a fire paddle
2001.29.30947 [No folder title]: /Gaiamakwe cooking meat in the ashes using a fire paddle
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Gaiamakwe cooking meat in a tsama melon skin used as a pot
2001.29.20605 /Gaiamakwe cooking meat in a tsama melon skin used as a pot
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Children, Eating: Girl cooking meat in ashes with a fire paddle
2001.29.1351 Children, Eating: Girl cooking meat in ashes with a fire paddle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaiamakwe taking a bite of meat, cutting it off at his lips
2001.29.20607 /Gaiamakwe taking a bite of meat, cutting it off at his lips
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Gaiamakwe cooking in tsama melon
2001.29.20610 /Gaiamakwe cooking in tsama melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Ceremony, Choa: Group of people participating in a choa ceremony, including N!ai (/Naoka's sister, second wife of /Ti!kay) with her son Gao in the foreground, /Naoka (wife of /Ti!kay), Bau (/Naoka's daughter), and /Naoka (sister of /Naoka's mother, /Goishay), with Khokove using a fire paddle to cover tsi with ashes and a man working on an animal skin
2001.29.1336 Ceremony, Choa: Group of people participating in a choa ceremony, including N!ai (/Naoka's sister, second wife of /Ti!kay) with her son Gao in the foreground, /Naoka (wife of /Ti!kay), Bau (/Naoka's daughter), and /Naoka (sister of /Naoka's mother, /Goishay), with Khokove using a fire paddle to cover tsi with ashes and a man working on an animal skin
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman cooking mangetti nuts in the ashes of a fire, pushing them with a fire paddle
2001.29.16218 Woman cooking mangetti nuts in the ashes of a fire, pushing them with a fire paddle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!Gai crouching by his fire cutting meat, N!whakwe and two other people sitting nearby
2001.29.20604 !Gai crouching by his fire cutting meat, N!whakwe and two other people sitting nearby
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Food, Meat: "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam starting to cook meat in the ashes of a fire, with a man from a visiting band sitting at a polite distance from their fire
2001.29.3005 Food, Meat: "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam starting to cook meat in the ashes of a fire, with a man from a visiting band sitting at a polite distance from their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!Gai with a bite of meat, N!whakwe waiting for it
2001.29.20609 !Gai with a bite of meat, N!whakwe waiting for it
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves next to him
2001.29.16206 Man squatting, holding a piece of meat and a knife, with an iron pot full of food sitting in the ashes of a fire, meat placed on leaves next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Meat: "Old Gau" sitting beside the ashes of his fire, with /Gishay sitting next to him, strips of meat hanging on a tree branch in the background
2001.29.1707 Food, Meat: "Old Gau" sitting beside the ashes of his fire, with /Gishay sitting next to him, strips of meat hanging on a tree branch in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy