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"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30031.1
Display Title "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "1952-3 224-8 / omitted from religion / Gao Medicine from a 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 transparency / in color / 10B 22"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted us[e only] / Not for publicatio[n] / Copy no. / L. Marshall"
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: 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (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
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30031 "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine" (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
[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
Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
2001.29.272.1 Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
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
"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
"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30856.1 "Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (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
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30885 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha