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N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male
N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male
Object Number 2001.29.22461
Display Title N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Figurine
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Eastern Lepanto
Children, Portraits: ≠Gisa wearing ornaments, including tsi, white beads around her neck and ostrich eggshell bead ornaments in her hair
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portrait of Di!ai with a bead ornament hanging over her forehead
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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986-28-10/60023 Bolo, a silver square with point upper corners & rounded lower ones & a V-design
Tie
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Close-up of ornaments hanging over N!ai's forehead
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Kombo mbenda" - ancestral bench. to get the odor of departed ones.
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Raw Material
Furniture
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Santiago Ahuizotla
Image Not Available for One very large stucco glyph and four fragmentary smaller ones.
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Palenque
One very large stucco glyph and four fragmentary smaller ones.
58-34-20/53736 One very large stucco glyph and four fragmentary smaller ones.
Palenque
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Effigy
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