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[No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29941
Display Title [No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 6 / 132-5 Print made / February 1977 / Returned from the Museum of Mankind / London. March 1975"; Stamped on photograph (verso):"Mrs. Laurence K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Massachusetts [handwritten annotation: 02138]"
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]: "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives
2001.29.29917 [No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives
Gautscha
"Band 2, Gao Helmet #28 & extended family": "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives, including Khuan//a of Band 4, Khwo//o-/Gasa and her husband ≠Gao, //Kushay, /Gasa, //Khuga, "Old /Gam," Xama, //Kushay, /Tuka, and ≠Toma (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30010 "Band 2, Gao Helmet #28 & extended family": "Gao Helmet" sitting with his extended family and relatives, including Khuan//a of Band 4, Khwo//o-/Gasa and her husband ≠Gao, //Kushay, /Gasa, //Khuga, "Old /Gam," Xama, //Kushay, /Tuka, and ≠Toma (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting his extended family and relatives, including Khuan//a of Band 4, Khwo//o-/Gasa and her husband ≠Gao with their daughter //Kushay, /Gasa, //Khuga, "Old /Gam," Xama, //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka, and ≠Toma (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30131 [No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" sitting his extended family and relatives, including Khuan//a of Band 4, Khwo//o-/Gasa and her husband ≠Gao with their daughter //Kushay, /Gasa, //Khuga, "Old /Gam," Xama, //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka, and ≠Toma (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband, //Ao (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29913.2 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband, //Ao (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391.3 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (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)
2001.29.30516.1 "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
"Gao Helmet" sitting with extended family in his werft, including Khuan//a of Band 4 (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), Khwo//o-Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife, daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), /Gasa (wife of /Qui, "Gao Helmet's" brother), //Khuga (/Gasa's mother, wife of "Old !Naishi"), "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma", mother of //Kushay), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka (husband of Xama) and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi)
2001.29.14365 "Gao Helmet" sitting with extended family in his werft, including Khuan//a of Band 4 (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), Khwo//o-Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife, daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), /Gasa (wife of /Qui, "Gao Helmet's" brother), //Khuga (/Gasa's mother, wife of "Old !Naishi"), "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma", mother of //Kushay), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka (husband of Xama) and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" sitting with extended family in his werft, including Khuan//a of Band 4 (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), Khwo//o-Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife, daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), /Gasa (wife of /Qui, "Gao Helmet's" brother), //Khuga (/Gasa's mother, wife of "Old !Naishi"), "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma", mother of //Kushay), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka (husband of Xama) and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi)
2001.29.14364 "Gao Helmet" sitting with extended family in his werft, including Khuan//a of Band 4 (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), Khwo//o-Gasa (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife, daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), /Gasa (wife of /Qui, "Gao Helmet's" brother), //Khuga (/Gasa's mother, wife of "Old !Naishi"), "Old /Gam" (wife of "Old ≠Toma", mother of //Kushay), //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" first wife), /Tuka (husband of Xama) and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi)
Gautscha
Guhita's (wife of Utukili) relative's huts
2001.29.219 Guhita's (wife of Utukili) relative's huts
Ngamiland (North West)
"Band moving": Band of people walking in a line, with the men in the front and the women in the back
2001.29.30521.1 "Band moving": Band of people walking in a line, with the men in the front and the women in the back
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Babies nursing": Mother nursing a baby (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31289.1 "Babies nursing": Mother nursing a baby (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30315.1 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan