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Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right)
Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right)
Object Number 2001.29.21864
Display Title Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / <County> / /Gam
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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Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right)
2001.29.28020 Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right)
/Gam
Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right), and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' legs
2001.29.21865 Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right), and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' legs
/Gam
Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right), and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' legs
2001.29.28021 Di!ai sitting with her two youngest children, /Gaishay (left) and Debe (right), and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' legs
/Gam
Di!ai standing with a group of children around her, including Bau, Debe, Di!ai's son /Gaishay, and !U's son /Gaishay
2001.29.22011 Di!ai standing with a group of children around her, including Bau, Debe, Di!ai's son /Gaishay, and !U's son /Gaishay
Nama Pan
Di!ai standing with her mother /Naoka, holding Debe on her shoulder and carrying /Gaishay on her back in her kaross
2001.29.21958 Di!ai standing with her mother /Naoka, holding Debe on her shoulder and carrying /Gaishay on her back in her kaross
Nama Pan
Di!ai with Debe, lying in her lap and nursing on her right breast, and /Gaishay standing beside her
2001.29.22109 Di!ai with Debe, lying in her lap and nursing on her right breast, and /Gaishay standing beside her
Nama Pan
Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her
2001.29.22886 Di!ai cooking in the ashes with Debe tied in her kaross and her son, /Gaishay, crouching beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her
2001.29.22917 Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her
Nama Pan
Di!ai with Debe sitting in her lap, nursing and clutching a toy bow and arrow, and her arms around /Gaishay
2001.29.22816 Di!ai with Debe sitting in her lap, nursing and clutching a toy bow and arrow, and her arms around /Gaishay
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe
2001.29.22882 Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31273 "Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy