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Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Object Number 2001.29.26006
Display Title Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Descriptions
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 adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 16.7 × 20.5 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/16 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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Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
2001.29.26006.1 Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Gautscha
Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
2001.29.14564 Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something, possibly an arrow foreshaft
Gautscha
Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
2001.29.25106 Top: Boy carrying a stomach water bag and another bag on a digging stick on his shoulder, walking in grass, seen from the back; bottom: Man sitting in front of a skerm smoothing something
Gautscha
≠Nisa pounding something, possibly tsi, sitting with //Ao in front of their skerm
2001.29.13926 ≠Nisa pounding something, possibly tsi, sitting with //Ao in front of their skerm
Gautscha
Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
2001.29.2143 Skerm: Man working on something in front of a skerm, holding his stone anvil with his foot, with a grass bed and an ostrich egg inside the skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old /Gaishay" (father of "Gao Medicine") sitting in front of his skerm
2001.29.14771 "Old /Gaishay" (father of "Gao Medicine") sitting in front of his skerm
Gautscha
Groups, Extended Family: Gau hammering something with a stone, sitting with his family in front of a skerm
2001.29.1923 Groups, Extended Family: Gau hammering something with a stone, sitting with his family in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls wearing hair ornaments, sitting in front of a skerm
2001.29.14511 Girls wearing hair ornaments, sitting in front of a skerm
Gautscha
Man taking arrows out of a quiver, sitting in front of his skerm with two men and a child
2001.29.14868 Man taking arrows out of a quiver, sitting in front of his skerm with two men and a child
Gautscha
Woman with a baby, sitting in front of a skerm
2001.29.12519 Woman with a baby, sitting in front of a skerm
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
//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm
2001.29.25946 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm
Gautscha