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Image Not Available for !Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
!Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
Image Not Available for !Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
Object Number 2001.29.22196
Display Title !Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama 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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Image Not Available for [No folder title]: !Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31081 [No folder title]: !Ungka Norna seated on her mother's knee and drinking from an ostrich eggshell and an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing
2001.29.22216 Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for "Photos of Children": Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31472 "Photos of Children": Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, crying, an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
2001.29.22195 !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, crying, an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, crying, an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
2001.29.28298 !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, crying, an unidentified, visiting girl and /Naoka (!U's mother) in the background
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.22705 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.28665 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1360 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1362 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1361 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31427 "The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right
2001.29.22097 /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right
Nama Pan