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[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29934.2
Display Title [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Ex III 138-1 / Dam 54 - ≠Gisa 55 - !Gai 56 / Band 2"
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: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934.1 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30133 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire
2001.29.14408 Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire
Gautscha
Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, sitting and cooking veldkos in their fire
2001.29.1648 Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, sitting and cooking veldkos in their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31186 [No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29055 Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28723 Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks, with unidentified people in the background
2001.29.22785 Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks, with unidentified people in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother)
2001.29.22998 Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28860 Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, cooking veldkos in their fire
2001.29.1657 Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, cooking veldkos in their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy