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Image Not Available for Boy sitting next to a skerm
Boy sitting next to a skerm
Image Not Available for Boy sitting next to a skerm
Object Number 2001.29.23972
Display Title Boy sitting next to a skerm
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1959
Culture
  • San
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Angola / Cuando Cubango
Additional Geographic Terms Chimbaranda, 3 hours north of Dirico
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 5.5 × 5.5 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 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
Image Not Available for Boy sitting next to a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29463 Boy sitting next to a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Cuando Cubango
Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
2001.29.15169 Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
2001.29.15170 Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
2001.29.15171 Boy sitting next to a skerm, with tin cans on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
2001.29.25106 Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Boy sitting in front of skerm sewing, with another boy next to him
2001.29.26178 Boy sitting in front of skerm sewing, with another boy next to him
Gautscha
"/Qui Umbilicus" using a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
2001.29.16212 "/Qui Umbilicus" using a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Qui Umbilicus" holding a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
2001.29.16211 "/Qui Umbilicus" holding a toothpick, sitting outside his skerm next to four boys eating out of a dish next to an iron pot, with a woman sitting inside the skerm behind them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting with six boys next to a fire in front of a skerm
2001.29.16402 Woman sitting with six boys next to a fire in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy sitting under a skerm built against a tree for shade
2001.29.14890 Boy sitting under a skerm built against a tree for shade
Gautscha
Three boys sitting, playing /Ui (the counting game), with the boy on the right gesturing and the boy on the left holding a stick; skerms and animal skins on the ground next to them in the background
2001.29.15987 Three boys sitting, playing /Ui (the counting game), with the boy on the right gesturing and the boy on the left holding a stick; skerms and animal skins on the ground next to them in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, 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
2001.29.16375 /Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, 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