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Interior of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Interior of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.26853
Display Title Interior of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Gau /U Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 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
Interior of a skerm
2001.29.20310 Interior of a skerm
/Gau /U Pan
Entrance of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26854 Entrance of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
Ostrich egg hidden in the roof of skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26855 Ostrich egg hidden in the roof of skerm (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
Ngwagetse, Genitsu (carrying a child), Rukan, and other man standing with Lorna Marshall, Laurence Marshall, and another expedition member (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26843 Ngwagetse, Genitsu (carrying a child), Rukan, and other man standing with Lorna Marshall, Laurence Marshall, and another expedition member (print is a cropped image)
Manatse
Expedition truck in the grass, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26845 Expedition truck in the grass, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Manatse
Large veldkos with a person's hand to show scale (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26849 Large veldkos with a person's hand to show scale (print is a cropped image)
Manatse
Ngwagetse, Genitsu (carrying a child), and Rukan standing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26844 Ngwagetse, Genitsu (carrying a child), and Rukan standing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Manatse
"Living places, shelters": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30865 "Living places, shelters": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Ku≠tera sitting with her few possessions, most of her possessions were burned when her and Oukwane's skerm caught fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27181 //Ku≠tera sitting with her few possessions, most of her possessions were burned when her and Oukwane's skerm caught fire (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Inside of a skerm, showing separate piles of ostrich eggshells, tsama melons, and bean pods (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26533 Inside of a skerm, showing separate piles of ostrich eggshells, tsama melons, and bean pods (print is a cropped image)
Chukudu Kraal
[No folder title]: "/Qui Navel" and his son, "Little ≠Gao," lying down beside a fire in the skerm, with //Kushay standing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31113 [No folder title]: "/Qui Navel" and his son, "Little ≠Gao," lying down beside a fire in the skerm, with //Kushay standing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: "/Qui Navel" and his son, "Little ≠Gao," lying down beside a fire in the skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31112 [No folder title]: "/Qui Navel" and his son, "Little ≠Gao," lying down beside a fire in the skerm (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan