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Object Number 2001.29.25685
Display Title "/Gao Music" scraping a hide (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
Dimensions Overall: 16.8275 × 20.32 cm (6 5/8 × 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
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay, ≠Toma, and an unidentified man scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30392.2 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay, ≠Toma, and an unidentified man scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay, ≠Toma, and an unidentified man scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30392.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music," /Ti!kay, ≠Toma, and an unidentified man scraping a hide (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"/Gao Music" scraping a hide
2001.29.14075 "/Gao Music" scraping a hide
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30135 [No folder title]: /Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30082 [No folder title]: /Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people sitting, with a man scraping a hide and women watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25693 Group of people sitting, with a man scraping a hide and women watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait  (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31897 /Qui, son of "/Gao Music," portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" standing with his second wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) and his son /Qui (by his first wife, also named ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30168 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" standing with his second wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) and his son /Qui (by his first wife, also named ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" in trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30510 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" in trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" being held by other men who also appear to be in partial trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30511 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" being held by other men who also appear to be in partial trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people dancing, with "/Gao Music" in a trance and being held by ≠Toma, and //Khuga (wife of Naishi of Band 5) dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30165 [No folder title]: Group of people dancing, with "/Gao Music" in a trance and being held by ≠Toma, and //Khuga (wife of Naishi of Band 5) dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha