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[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29937
Display Title [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 24 / Gao "Music" playing //guashi / like but not / 43-5 [is 43-5 but cropped] / Negative of 43-5 used Feb. 1977 / British Museum"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / Not for publication / Copy No. [handwritten annotation: Unnumbered E] / L. Marshall"
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: 20.955 × 17.78 cm (8 1/4 × 7 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]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29937.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29951 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Music": "Crooked /Qui" standing and playing a //guashi, view from behind (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30737.1 "Music": "Crooked /Qui" standing and playing a //guashi, view from behind (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
2001.29.30516.3 "N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Reel 224, 18-36, Ex III / b/w prints made from color slides, huddle": Group of people sitting, including "Little N!ai" (left), //Khuga (middle), and /Gishay (Gau's son) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30722 "Reel 224, 18-36, Ex III / b/w prints made from color slides, huddle": Group of people sitting, including "Little N!ai" (left), //Khuga (middle), and /Gishay (Gau's son) playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30516.2 "N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30298 Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: N≠isa (daughter of N/aoka and "Gao Medicine") adorned with ornamentsN≠isa (daughter of N/aoka and "Gao Medicine") adorned with ornaments (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31093.1 [No folder title]: N≠isa (daughter of N/aoka and "Gao Medicine") adorned with ornamentsN≠isa (daughter of N/aoka and "Gao Medicine") adorned with ornaments (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.3 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha