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"/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" seated to the right watching him (print is a cropped image)
"/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" seated to the right watching him (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.25560
Display Title "/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" seated to the right watching him (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Handwritten in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by A. Scherz / 1952-3 (Leica) / #10-20 [10-22]"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
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: 10.4775 × 15.5575 cm (4 1/8 × 6 1/8 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Groups [of] men: "/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" sitting to the right, watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29981 Groups [of] men: "/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" sitting to the right, watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" sitting to the right, watching him
2001.29.19499 "/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" sitting to the right, watching him
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30277 [No folder title]: "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (Gau's wife) holding !Ungka Norna; Khuan//a's son, /Qui, sitting on her legs (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25550 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) holding !Ungka Norna; Khuan//a's son, /Qui, sitting on her legs (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": "Little ≠Gao," "/Qui Navel's" son, pulling Norna on a kaross, and Be watching them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31235 "Little ≠Gao with Be (Da. [daughter] of Bo), [with] /Gaishay and Bau (da [daughter] of Crooked /Qui)": "Little ≠Gao," "/Qui Navel's" son, pulling Norna on a kaross, and Be watching them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Group of people sitting in front of Gau's (of Band 2) skerm, including /Gasa, //Khuga (wife of /Naishi), a woman stringing beads, "Little /Qui," and "Old Gau" from Band 1 (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30209 Digging for roots: Group of people sitting in front of Gau's (of Band 2) skerm, including /Gasa, //Khuga (wife of /Naishi), a woman stringing beads, "Little /Qui," and "Old Gau" from Band 1 (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Naoka's son) delousing "≠Gao Lame," with /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") watching, ≠Toma (son of Gau) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31215 "Children in groups": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Naoka's son) delousing "≠Gao Lame," with /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") watching, ≠Toma (son of Gau) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25626 Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29927 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son), and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31224 "Children in groups": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son), and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (Gau's wife) putting down wood (photograph is a cropped image)
2001.29.25401.1 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) putting down wood (photograph is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30298 Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha