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//Ao playing a one-stringed violin with his wife ≠Nisa beside him (print is a cropped image)
//Ao playing a one-stringed violin with his wife ≠Nisa beside him (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.25824.1
Display Title //Ao playing a one-stringed violin with his wife ≠Nisa beside him (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by A. Scherz / 127/9"; 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: 20.9 × 16 cm (8 1/4 × 6 5/16 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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//Ao playing a one-stringed violin with his wife ≠Nisa beside him
2001.29.25824 //Ao playing a one-stringed violin with his wife ≠Nisa beside him
Gautscha
//Ao playing the one-stringed violin, sitting with his wife, ≠Nisa
2001.29.14310 //Ao playing the one-stringed violin, sitting with his wife, ≠Nisa
Gautscha
≠Nisa, wife of //Ao (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25595 ≠Nisa, wife of //Ao (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Babies nursing": ≠Nisa, wife of //Ao, nursing her baby, profile (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31283 "Babies nursing": ≠Nisa, wife of //Ao, nursing her baby, profile (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao in Band 2) standing with her daughter, Khuan//a, and /Qui (Gau's son) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31248 [No folder title]: ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao in Band 2) standing with her daughter, Khuan//a, and /Qui (Gau's son) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) sitting and holding her daughter in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30714 "Grooming & haircuts": ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) sitting and holding her daughter in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Norna with groups": Five girls sitting in a row beside N!ai's wedding skerm, including N!ai, ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Nama (daughter of "Geo Helmet" of Band 2) and ≠Nisa (wife of "/Gao Music" in Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31384.1 "Norna with groups": Five girls sitting in a row beside N!ai's wedding skerm, including N!ai, ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Nama (daughter of "Geo Helmet" of Band 2) and ≠Nisa (wife of "/Gao Music" in Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Ao and ≠Nisa sitting by their fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25596.1 //Ao and ≠Nisa sitting by their fire (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children, Music: //Ao holding his daughter and a one-stringed "violin," with "Old Gau" standing next to him
2001.29.2947 Children, Music: //Ao holding his daughter and a one-stringed "violin," with "Old Gau" standing next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing a little kaross and beads in her hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31247 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of //Ao and ≠Nisa) sitting, wearing a little kaross and beads in her hair (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29929 "//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Music: //Ao (son of "Old ≠Toma) playing a one-stringed "violin," profile
2001.29.2013 Music: //Ao (son of "Old ≠Toma) playing a one-stringed "violin," profile
Nyae Nyae Conservancy