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Object Number 2001.29.29998.1
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): "# 19 / Published in / SWA Yearbook, 1956 / 140-1 / 140-1"; written in red ink and crossed out on photograph (verso): "Water from an ostrich / eggshell-"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / [crossed out: not for publication] / Copy no. / L. Marshall"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
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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N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.556 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.25898 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.2 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25898.1 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31899 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.14437 N!ai giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children, Eating: N!ai (≠Toma's niece) giving a drink of water from //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], to /Gaishay (her half-brother)
2001.29.257 Children, Eating: N!ai (≠Toma's niece) giving a drink of water from //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], to /Gaishay (her half-brother)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.382 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.14432 "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Gautscha