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Three ostrich eggshells decoated with scratched designs, with stoppers
Three ostrich eggshells decoated with scratched designs, with stoppers
Object Number 2001.29.23109
Display Title Three ostrich eggshells decoated with scratched designs, with stoppers
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
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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"Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30786 "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells
2001.29.23110 Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30785 "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.3181 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.2230 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
2001.29.3182 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Marriage: N!ai and /Gunda sitting by their fire in front of a skerm the afternoon after their wedding, with N!ai's three ostrich eggshells on the ground next to her
2001.29.3021 Marriage: N!ai and /Gunda sitting by their fire in front of a skerm the afternoon after their wedding, with N!ai's three ostrich eggshells on the ground next to her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Possessions: Ostrich egg shells with stoppers; three of them showing decoration on the shells
2001.29.5990 Possessions: Ostrich egg shells with stoppers; three of them showing decoration on the shells
Gautscha
N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
2001.29.17517 N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16373 /Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28833 Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Man watching ≠Toma lining a carrying net with a small kaross to pack it with rattles, ostrich eggshells, etc.
2001.29.23128 Man watching ≠Toma lining a carrying net with a small kaross to pack it with rattles, ostrich eggshells, etc.
Nyae Nyae Conservancy