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N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29998
Display Title N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: !Nai gives her half brother a drink / this was used in South West Africa Annual, 1956, p. 21 / and by the government on an official / 1 1/2d stamped postal card] / C3 1" wide"
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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