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Group of people starting to dance
Object Number 2001.29.25815
Display Title Group of people starting to dance
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on note stapled to paper: "108-7 / The !Kung / ceremonial / dance"
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: 16.5 × 20.3 cm (6 1/2 × 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
Group of people starting to dance
2001.29.14295 Group of people starting to dance
Gautscha
Dance: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with two young men starting to dance way from the group
2001.29.1596 Dance: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with two young men starting to dance way from the group
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30161 [No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting
2001.29.1577 Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men beginning a daytime dance, with Di//khao-Gu≠na (mother of "Gao Medicine") going to sit down (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1572 Dance: Men beginning a daytime dance, with Di//khao-Gu≠na (mother of "Gao Medicine") going to sit down (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Group of people performing the Eland Dance, with Twi cutting in between ≠Kxoba and the man in front of her (from color slide 2001.29.8673)
2001.29.30654 [No folder title]: Group of people performing the Eland Dance, with Twi cutting in between ≠Kxoba and the man in front of her (from color slide 2001.29.8673)
!Go Tsao
[No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
2001.29.30634.4 [No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
!Go Tsao
[No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
2001.29.30634.1 [No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
!Go Tsao
[No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
2001.29.30634.3 [No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
!Go Tsao
[No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
2001.29.30634.2 [No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, dancing in a line around a skerm (from color slide 2001.29.8654)
!Go Tsao
[No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, with Twi imitating the sideways motion of an eland's hind legs and playing up to ǂKxoba (from color slide 2001.29.8657)
2001.29.30638.1 [No folder title]: People performing the Eland Dance, with Twi imitating the sideways motion of an eland's hind legs and playing up to ǂKxoba (from color slide 2001.29.8657)
!Go Tsao
Group of men starting to dance
2001.29.14298 Group of men starting to dance
Gautscha