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Image Not Available for N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
Image Not Available for N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
Object Number 2001.29.25931.1
Display Title N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by A. Scherz / 1952-3 / 156-14"; 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: 161 × 12.1 cm (63 3/8 × 4 3/4 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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2001.29.30872 "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
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Image Not Available for Three girls handing a cigarette to one another
2001.29.25930.1 Three girls handing a cigarette to one another
Gautscha
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Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30871.1 "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30871 "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31217 "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
2001.29.25931 N!ai smoking a cigarette with two other girls
Gautscha
Image Not Available for /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25528.1 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31398.1 "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25661 //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25754 "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25898.1 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha