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Baby sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Baby sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.25540
Display Title Baby sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Handwritten in ink on photograph (verso): "Ex III 4-10"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 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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N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.1 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30535 "Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ornaments & beads": Woman of Band 11 putting an ostrich eggshell headband on her child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30790.1 "Ornaments & beads": Woman of Band 11 putting an ostrich eggshell headband on her child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373.1 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30784 "Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31987.1 [No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Mongolian spot": Baby sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30767 "Mongolian spot": Baby sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha