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Object Number 2001.29.22585
Display Title Medicine man curing another person from a group of seated people
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Artist Daniel Blitz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
[No folder title]: Medicine man curing another person from a group of seated people (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31108.1 [No folder title]: Medicine man curing another person from a group of seated people (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Medicine man curing another person from a group of seated people (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31108 [No folder title]: Medicine man curing another person from a group of seated people (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
2001.29.22582 Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
2001.29.28567.1 Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
2001.29.28567 Medicine man curing someone in a seated group
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Medicine man and a group people
2001.29.22581 Medicine man and a group people
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Medicine man falling backwards into the arms of another man, with a group of people watching
2001.29.21041 Medicine man falling backwards into the arms of another man, with a group of people watching
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
2001.29.25801 Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
Gautscha
Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
2001.29.14279 Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
Gautscha
Medicine man curing a sick person lying on the ground, with people in the dance circle in the background
2001.29.15708 Medicine man curing a sick person lying on the ground, with people in the dance circle in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Night dance at Tsumkwe 1957-8, some published in my [Lorna Marshall's] dance paper": Medicine man curing a sick person, with a circle of people dancing in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30480 "Night dance at Tsumkwe 1957-8, some published in my [Lorna Marshall's] dance paper": Medicine man curing a sick person, with a circle of people dancing in the background (print is a cropped image)
Tsumkwe
Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
2001.29.22594 Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
Nyae Nyae Conservancy