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"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29922
Display Title "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "A !Kung girl, named Khuan//a playing //guashi / (This photo appeared in George P. Murdock's / new book on Africa and also in the / South West Africa annual 1956, p. 23 / 133-10"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[handwritten annotation: Credit:] Film Study Center / Peabody Museum / Harvard University / Cambridge, Mass."
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 Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 16.51 cm (8 × 6 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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[No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30166 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
2001.29.14381 Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30166.1 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31896 Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29921.1 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29923.1 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29923 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29924 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29921 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Old ≠Toma & his grand da. [daughter], Da [Daughter] of //Ao #44 & N≠isa 45 child - Band 2": "Old ≠Toma" holding his granddaughter, Khuan//a (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29926 "Old ≠Toma & his grand da. [daughter], Da [Daughter] of //Ao #44 & N≠isa 45 child - Band 2": "Old ≠Toma" holding his granddaughter, Khuan//a (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
2001.29.25873.1 Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha