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"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male (print is a cropped image)
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29925
Display Title "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "55-104-7 / A !Kung girl, !Nai. / The ornaments on the back of the head are made / of ostrich egg shell beads. The rectangular / ones, the !Kung say, are male ornaments; / the triangular ones, on the front of the / head, are female. The circular ones, made / of copper beads obtained in trade with / the Tswana, are just for beauty, we were told. / The saf[e]ty pin was ours and was aked / for as a gift. / Cf. 55-104-10"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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
N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male
2001.29.22461 N!ai showing her head ornaments; the triangular ones hanging over her forehead are said to be female, whereas the rectangular ones at the back of her head are said to be male
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portrait of a visiting girl with her head shaved, showing ostrich eggshell bead necklace (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28492 Portrait of a visiting girl with her head shaved, showing ostrich eggshell bead necklace (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Portraits: ≠Gisa wearing ornaments, including tsi, white beads around her neck and ostrich eggshell bead ornaments in her hair
2001.29.2867 Children, Portraits: ≠Gisa wearing ornaments, including tsi, white beads around her neck and ostrich eggshell bead ornaments in her hair
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Shell money - string of white beads with few red ones
40-12-70/1923 Shell money - string of white beads with few red ones
Currency
Bougainville Island
Necklace, white beads with few colored ones at end, olunigi lwomukala
39-39-50/4024 Necklace, white beads with few colored ones at end, olunigi lwomukala
Necklace
Uganda
Bolo, a silver square with point upper corners & rounded lower ones & a V-design
986-28-10/60023 Bolo, a silver square with point upper corners & rounded lower ones & a V-design
Tie
United States
Bone tubes, the shorter ones probably bone beads
2004.24.17794 Bone tubes, the shorter ones probably bone beads
San Juan County
"Kombo mbenda" - ancestral bench. to get the odor of departed ones.
22-2-50/B3470 "Kombo mbenda" - ancestral bench. to get the odor of departed ones.
Raw Material
Furniture
Cameroon
"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
Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28485 Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face
2001.29.22467 Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Nut shell-hollow, with large hole on one side and 3 small ones on other side
35-106-20/8647 Nut shell-hollow, with large hole on one side and 3 small ones on other side
Santiago Ahuizotla