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"Gao Medicine" squatting and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
"Gao Medicine" squatting and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.25614
Display Title "Gao Medicine" squatting and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by A. Scherz / 34/8 / 34-8"; 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
Dimensions Overall: 15.5575 × 15.5575 cm (6 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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"Old Demi" (leader of Band 6) sitting, holding /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son)
2001.29.383 "Old Demi" (leader of Band 6) sitting, holding /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31323 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine," portrait (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25750 "Gao Medicine," portrait (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
"Gao Medicine extended family, Band 1": "Gao Medicine" squatting and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29908 "Gao Medicine extended family, Band 1": "Gao Medicine" squatting and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31325 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25621.1 /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!U standing, and talking or laughing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25612 !U standing, and talking or laughing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25843.1 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31324 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Gao squatting with his daughter beside a fire and in front of a skerm (photograph is a cropped image)
2001.29.25420.1 ≠Gao squatting with his daughter beside a fire and in front of a skerm (photograph is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Demi," ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), and "/Qui Hunter" squatting in the grass (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30295 [No folder title]: "Old Demi," ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), and "/Qui Hunter" squatting in the grass (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha