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!Oukabe dancing or playing a game in the werft, full-figure standing
!Oukabe dancing or playing a game in the werft, full-figure standing
Object Number 2001.29.21167
Display Title !Oukabe dancing or playing a game in the werft, full-figure standing
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
!Oukabe dancing or playing a game in the werft, full-figure standing
2001.29.27473 !Oukabe dancing or playing a game in the werft, full-figure standing
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Oukabe and /Gaiamakwe playing a game with their hands
2001.29.21486 !Oukabe and /Gaiamakwe playing a game with their hands
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe eating tsama melons, full figure standing
2001.29.21357 /Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe eating tsama melons, full figure standing
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Oukabe and /Gaiamakwe playing a game with their hands (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27741 !Oukabe and /Gaiamakwe playing a game with their hands (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe eating tsama melons, full figure standing
2001.29.27630 /Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe eating tsama melons, full figure standing
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Oukabe seated, playing a sanza placed on empty melon rind for sounding board
2001.29.21169 !Oukabe seated, playing a sanza placed on empty melon rind for sounding board
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Oukabe seated playing a sanza placed on empty melon rind used as a sounding board
2001.29.21170 !Oukabe seated playing a sanza placed on empty melon rind used as a sounding board
/Ai Ha !O Pan
//Kwai≠kabe and !Oukabe playing with a djani bird toy (helicopter toy) and a stick
2001.29.21418 //Kwai≠kabe and !Oukabe playing with a djani bird toy (helicopter toy) and a stick
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.21311 Oukabe handing N!whakwe a bullroarer, with groups sitting under tree at visitors' werft in the background
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe playing a musical bow
2001.29.21423 /Gaiamakwe and !Oukabe playing a musical bow
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
2001.29.22978 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Three women sit in a line in the werft watching women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game), with another woman standing behind them
2001.29.16324 Three women sit in a line in the werft watching women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game), with another woman standing behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy