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Image Not Available for Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
Image Not Available for Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
Object Number 2001.29.25494
Display Title Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / <County> / /Gam
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 14.605 × 20.32 cm (5 3/4 × 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
Image Not Available for Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
2001.29.25495 Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
/Gam
Image Not Available for Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
2001.29.25496 Ju/'hoan children sitting inside a skerm; water bag made from animal stomach hangs from the side of the entrance
/Gam
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Group of people sitting inside a skerm, shows skerm entrance and water-bag made from an animal stomach (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30659 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting inside a skerm, shows skerm entrance and water-bag made from an animal stomach (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30864 "Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
2001.29.30524 "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
2001.29.30524.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Gautscha
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 "Water": Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30893 "Water": Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back
2001.29.14212 Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25756 Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for /Gasa (/Qui's wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell necklace; /Qui and another unidentified Ju/'hoan man in the background
2001.29.25478 /Gasa (/Qui's wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell necklace; /Qui and another unidentified Ju/'hoan man in the background
/Gam
Image Not Available for /Gasa (/Qui's wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell necklace; /Qui and another unidentified Ju/'hoan man in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25281 /Gasa (/Qui's wife) wearing an ostrich eggshell necklace; /Qui and another unidentified Ju/'hoan man in the background (print is a cropped image)
/Gam