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[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29931
Display Title [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A !Kung woman pounds a tough root / in her wooden bowl (mortar). / 1952-3 / 10-1 (Leica)"; stamped on photograph (verso) and crossed out: "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
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
Dimensions Overall: 15.5575 × 10.16 cm (6 1/8 × 4 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]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29927 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
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[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29932 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29930 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30056 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30057 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches (print is a cropped image)
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) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25543 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head (print is a cropped image)
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//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle
2001.29.19478 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle
Gautscha
//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head
2001.29.19477 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle, wearing ornaments and ostrich eggshell beads on her head
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//Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches
2001.29.19479 //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches
Gautscha
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2001.29.25746.1 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2, father of "Gao Helmet's" first wife, //Kushay, portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) holding her baby, Xama, and other unidentified children standing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31243 [No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) holding her baby, Xama, and other unidentified children standing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha