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"Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her
"Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her
Object Number 2001.29.23273
Display Title "Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her
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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"Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29056 "Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" cooking the head of an animal in a pit, with one of her grandsons (≠Gao or ≠Toma, Gau's sons) sitting beside her
2001.29.1649 Food, Cooking: "Old /Gasa" cooking the head of an animal in a pit, with one of her grandsons (≠Gao or ≠Toma, Gau's sons) sitting beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1362 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1361 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1360 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Mortar and pestle": ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30416 "Mortar and pestle": ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma's sister with her child beside her, pounding something with mortar and pestle
2001.29.26085 ≠Toma's sister with her child beside her, pounding something with mortar and pestle
Gautscha
≠Toma's sister with her child beside her, pounding something with mortar and pestle
2001.29.26091 ≠Toma's sister with her child beside her, pounding something with mortar and pestle
Gautscha
≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her, distant view
2001.29.14743 ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her, distant view
Gautscha
≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her
2001.29.14742 ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her
Gautscha
"Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30417 "Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Old /Gasa" standing, with her grandson ≠Toma (son of Gau) sitting by the fire behind her
2001.29.14044 "Old /Gasa" standing, with her grandson ≠Toma (son of Gau) sitting by the fire behind her
Gautscha