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Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
Object Number 2001.29.22572
Display Title Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
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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Close-up of woman's chest showing tortoise shell and bead ornaments
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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2001.29.28492 Portrait of a visiting girl with her head shaved, showing ostrich eggshell bead necklace (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29075 Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10)
2001.29.23297 Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Ornament: Woman from Band 10 or 11 with scarification, wearing ornaments, close-up
2001.29.3107 Ornament: Woman from Band 10 or 11 with scarification, wearing ornaments, close-up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Media Restricted
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Sitio Conte
[No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31186 [No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads
2001.29.23267 Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads
Nama Pan
Kaross hanging from a woman's neck, close-up
2001.29.22859 Kaross hanging from a woman's neck, close-up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Kaross hanging from a woman's neck, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28776 Kaross hanging from a woman's neck, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29929 "//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm
2001.29.25946 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm
Gautscha