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[No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29875
Display Title [No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"; written in pencil on note in folder: "49-8 / A !Kung woman / (!Ungka) / dances for / pleasure"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Historic Place Name
Africa / South West Africa
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 × 11.43 cm (6 × 4 1/2 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
[No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30113.1 [No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30113 [No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29875.1 [No folder title]: !Ungka dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of women, including !U and !Ungka, with Lorna Marshall standing in background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29956 [No folder title]: Group of women, including !U and !Ungka, with Lorna Marshall standing in background (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka dancing
2001.29.14061 !Ungka dancing
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Woman from /Ti!kay's group standing and carrying her baby (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31242 [No folder title]: Woman from /Ti!kay's group standing and carrying her baby (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[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
Bau, wife of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, sitting and holding her daughter, !Ungka (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25593 Bau, wife of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, sitting and holding her daughter, !Ungka (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25544 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Rites - 1st kill": !U with Norna, and another woman (probably ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka) with her baby (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30815 "Rites - 1st kill": !U with Norna, and another woman (probably ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka) with her baby (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha