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Entrance of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Entrance of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.26854
Display Title Entrance 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
Entrance of a skerm
2001.29.20311 Entrance of a skerm
/Gau /U Pan
Interior of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26853 Interior 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
/Twikwe and two children in a patch of cleared ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26939 /Twikwe and two children in a patch of cleared ground (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting inside a skerm, shows skerm entrance and water-bag made from an animal stomach (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30659 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting inside a skerm, shows skerm entrance and water-bag made from an animal stomach (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Oukwane and !Gai holding a gemsbok, looking at where it was shot (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26810 Oukwane and !Gai holding a gemsbok, looking at where it was shot (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
"Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30864 "Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (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
Man lying on his back inside a skerm, sleeping
2001.29.15382 Man lying on his back inside a skerm, sleeping
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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