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Woman holding a baby in her kaross
Woman holding a baby in her kaross
Object Number 2001.29.22573
Display Title Woman holding a baby in her kaross
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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Woman holding a baby in her kaross
2001.29.22574 Woman holding a baby in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Group of men performing a curing dance around a circle of women, with a woman dancing holding a baby in her kaross
2001.29.5750 Dance: Group of men performing a curing dance around a circle of women, with a woman dancing holding a baby in her kaross
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Woman holding a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31106 [No folder title]: Woman holding a baby in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her
2001.29.22945 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her
Nama Pan
Woman wearing a towel on her shoulder, sitting, holding her baby tied in her kaross
2001.29.15203 Woman wearing a towel on her shoulder, sitting, holding her baby tied in her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22989 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Group of men performing a curing dance around a circle of women, with a woman dancing holding a baby in her kaross
2001.29.5749 Dance: Group of men performing a curing dance around a circle of women, with a woman dancing holding a baby in her kaross
Gautscha
Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
2001.29.22944 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31163 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Food Gathering, Children: Woman putting her baby into her kaross, with her digging stick on the ground next to her
2001.29.1725 Food Gathering, Children: Woman putting her baby into her kaross, with her digging stick on the ground next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Bau with her kaross full of nuts and her baby on her shoulder, seen from behind
2001.29.7735 Bau with her kaross full of nuts and her baby on her shoulder, seen from behind
Tsumkwe
Children, Mothers nursing babies: ≠Toma's sister sitting and her child standing, with an elderly woman wrapped in kaross lying on the ground nearby
2001.29.5705 Children, Mothers nursing babies: ≠Toma's sister sitting and her child standing, with an elderly woman wrapped in kaross lying on the ground nearby
Gautscha