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for "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Object Number
2001.29.30022
Display Title
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "111 1/2% / !Kung Bushmen women preparing to have the / place where they have been staying and to move / on to another where some other wild plant food is / ripening. The one to left and [?] are bending over are / the two wives of Gao "Helmet". / Shows dwelling place / without hut / 63 p / Shows how children are / carried in "slings". / (Woman from Band II: Left //Kushay II Gao Beard's 2nd wi; / Middle with beads in hair Xama ma; right / //Kushay I Gao Beard's 1st wi.) / Published in Natural History June July 1958 p. 307/ X 36 35 mm / X-36 (35 mm)"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass.", "For restricted use only / [crossed out: not for publication] / Copy no. / L. Marshall", "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University" and 1741
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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