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"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30025.1
Display Title "Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 310-3 / # 3 / 2 1/2" wide / 8627/24 / Africa Dec 1960 / 310-3"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 12.065 cm (7 × 4 3/4 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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"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30025.2 "Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30025 "Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31279 "Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her
2001.29.19293 Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30148 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Khuan//a, second wife of Gau, sitting and holding a sleeping child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25264 Khuan//a, second wife of Gau, sitting and holding a sleeping child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's wife) holding !Ungka Norna; Khuan//a's son, /Qui, sitting on her legs (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30024 "Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's wife) holding !Ungka Norna; Khuan//a's son, /Qui, sitting on her legs (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31280 "Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Group of Band 2 Khuan//a #52 //Kushay II #32": Group of Ju/'hoansi seated including Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29972 "Group of Band 2 Khuan//a #52 //Kushay II #32": Group of Ju/'hoansi seated including Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29067 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son
2001.29.23285 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: Gau (of Band 2) sitting with his family by their skerm, left to right: ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), Be, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and her son /Qui, Gunda (son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and !Naishi (son of Gau and Be)
2001.29.1373 Children, Mothers nursing babies: Gau (of Band 2) sitting with his family by their skerm, left to right: ≠Toma (son of Gau and Be), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), Be, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) and her son /Qui, Gunda (son of Khuan//a by a former marriage with Bo) and !Naishi (son of Gau and Be)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy