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"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
Object Number 2001.29.30023.1
Display Title "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L.K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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 × 12.7 cm (8 × 5 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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"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
2001.29.30023 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, and //Kushay, his second wife, standing near him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay
2001.29.25867 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31912 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching
2001.29.14374 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, with his second wife //Kushay sitting next to him watching
Gautscha
"Band 2, Gao Helmet #28": "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, and sitting with his second wife //Kushay (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30007 "Band 2, Gao Helmet #28": "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, and sitting with his second wife //Kushay (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25103 Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade
2001.29.25868 "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
2001.29.14376 "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
2001.29.14375 "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal
Gautscha
Groups, Extended Family: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, hammering it on a stone, sitting with members of his family
2001.29.1894 Groups, Extended Family: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, hammering it on a stone, sitting with members of his family
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups, Extended Family: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, hammering it on a stone, sitting with members of his family
2001.29.1893 Groups, Extended Family: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, hammering it on a stone, sitting with members of his family
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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)
2001.29.30022 "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)
Gautscha