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Tsekue making musical sounds and rhythms using stiff grass, with Daniel Blitz and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas preparing to set up synchronized sound recordings
Tsekue making musical sounds and rhythms using stiff grass, with Daniel Blitz and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas preparing to set up synchronized sound recordings
Object Number 2001.29.21420
Display Title Tsekue making musical sounds and rhythms using stiff grass, with Daniel Blitz and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas preparing to set up synchronized sound recordings
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
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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Tsekue making musical sounds and rhythms using stiff grass, with Daniel Blitz and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas preparing to set up synchronized sound recordings (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27680 Tsekue making musical sounds and rhythms using stiff grass, with Daniel Blitz and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas preparing to set up synchronized sound recordings (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Elizabeth Marshall and Daniel Blitz synching sound recordings
2001.29.4403 Elizabeth Marshall and Daniel Blitz synching sound recordings
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue seated, making rhythmic sounds with grass stems
2001.29.21430 Tsekue seated, making rhythmic sounds with grass stems
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue seated, making rhythmic sounds with grass stems (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27690 Tsekue seated, making rhythmic sounds with grass stems (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Daniel Blitz, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Bill Donnellan, and Laurence Marshall setting up sound recording equipment, Professor L. F. Maingard standing, back to the camera
2001.29.4660 Daniel Blitz, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Bill Donnellan, and Laurence Marshall setting up sound recording equipment, Professor L. F. Maingard standing, back to the camera
Namibia
Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.588 Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
2001.29.27017 Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
2001.29.746 Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
2001.29.747 Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
2001.29.745 Expedition members recording sound synchronized films at a werft
/Ai Ha !O Pan
John Marshall setting up sound sync with Daniel Blitz and Wilhelm Camm standing nearby; group of people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27730 John Marshall setting up sound sync with Daniel Blitz and Wilhelm Camm standing nearby; group of people in the background (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
John Marshall setting up sound sync with Daniel Blitz and Wilhelm Camm standing nearby; group of people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.21475 John Marshall setting up sound sync with Daniel Blitz and Wilhelm Camm standing nearby; group of people in the background (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan