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!Gai with an open tsama melon, washing hands with tsama melon pulp
!Gai with an open tsama melon, washing hands with tsama melon pulp
Object Number 2001.29.21221
Display Title !Gai with an open tsama melon, washing hands with tsama melon pulp
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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!Gai with an open tsama melon, washing hands with tsama melon pulp
2001.29.27519 !Gai with an open tsama melon, washing hands with tsama melon pulp
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue cooking a stew of meat and tsama melon pulp at the fire, with N!whakwe beside her
2001.29.21370 Tsekue cooking a stew of meat and tsama melon pulp at the fire, with N!whakwe beside her
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue cooking a stew of meat and tsama melon pulp at the fire, with N!whakwe beside her
2001.29.27643 Tsekue cooking a stew of meat and tsama melon pulp at the fire, with N!whakwe beside her
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
2001.29.21139 !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
2001.29.21140 !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick
2001.29.21218 !Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick
/Ai Ha !O Pan
!Gai and N!whakwe with tsama melons sitting at their place in the werft
2001.29.21143 !Gai and N!whakwe with tsama melons sitting at their place in the werft
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
2001.29.404 Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Taekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe eating a piece of tsama melon, with a pile of seeds on a mat on the ground near her
2001.29.20945 /Twikwe eating a piece of tsama melon, with a pile of seeds on a mat on the ground near her
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"With tsama": !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Tsekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30440 "With tsama": !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Tsekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai) (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"With tsama": !Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30435 "With tsama": !Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe bracing a tsama melon with her foot in order to chop it, and eating some of the melon
2001.29.20952 /Twikwe bracing a tsama melon with her foot in order to chop it, and eating some of the melon
/Ai Ha !O Pan