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"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30031
Display Title "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 9 / Gao Medicine / B/W print made from a color / transparency Catalogue Number / 10B-19 (1952-3)"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 12.7 cm (7 × 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30031.1 "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29957 [No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31327.1 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31327.2 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31327 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man, /Gaishay going into trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" carrying meat to a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30730.1 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" carrying meat to a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30729.2 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31326 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30729 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30261 [No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Band 3: Khwo//o (mother of "Gao Medicine") lying down
2001.29.29989 Band 3: Khwo//o (mother of "Gao Medicine") lying down
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Story: Group of men playing a game, including "Gao Medicine," "/Qui Navel," and //Ao, with "Gao Medicine" being "killed"
2001.29.3178 Story: Group of men playing a game, including "Gao Medicine," "/Qui Navel," and //Ao, with "Gao Medicine" being "killed"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy