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[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29957
Display Title [No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 8 / /Gao Music / Catalogue number 10B-12 / (1952-3)"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 17.4625 × 12.3825 cm (6 7/8 × 4 7/8 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
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30031 "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30031.1 "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30399 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30398.2 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30398.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30398 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Qui Hunter" wearing a badger headdress (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30462 [No folder title]: "/Qui Hunter" wearing a badger headdress (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30261 [No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (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
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" shredding sinew, sitting with his wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30196 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" shredding sinew, sitting with his wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30885 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31327.1 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy