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Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
Object Number 2001.29.22595
Display Title Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
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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Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
2001.29.28575 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
[No folder title]: Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31109 [No folder title]: Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
2001.29.28574.1 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
Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
2001.29.28574 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
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
Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind
2001.29.22593 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
"Dance at Tsho/ana, Daytime": Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30404 "Dance at Tsho/ana, Daytime": Three men, including /Gunda and ≠Gao, dancing around a group of seated women singing; medicine man leaning over "Gao Medicine" far back behind (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Dance at Tsho/ana, Daytime": Medicine man leaning over a man, probably "Gao Medicine," view from behind (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30403 "Dance at Tsho/ana, Daytime": Medicine man leaning over a man, probably "Gao Medicine," view from behind (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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
"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
Dance: "Old /Gam," Khuan//a (wife of "Gao Helmet," sister of "Gao Medicine"), and an unidentified woman carrying a baby are dancing with the men at a daytime counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1576 Dance: "Old /Gam," Khuan//a (wife of "Gao Helmet," sister of "Gao Medicine"), and an unidentified woman carrying a baby are dancing with the men at a daytime counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy