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//Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
//Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.25556
Display Title //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
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 adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 14.605 cm (8 × 5 3/4 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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//Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy
2001.29.19494 //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29933 [No folder title]: //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy
2001.29.19493 //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy
Gautscha
//Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25553 //Kushay with her baby, Xama, and an unidentified boy (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet," headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30097 [No folder title]: Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet," headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765.1 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25559 Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children, Fathers and sons: /Gunda (son of "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam) playing with three young children of Band 2 in front of a skerm, including the daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa and Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay)
2001.29.1511 Children, Fathers and sons: /Gunda (son of "Old ≠Toma" and /Gam) playing with three young children of Band 2 in front of a skerm, including the daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa and Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her
2001.29.19491 //Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30058 [No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha