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"Gao Medicine & family, 1955": /Naoka holding Debe in her arms and sitting beside Di!ai (print is a cropped image)
"Gao Medicine & family, 1955": /Naoka holding Debe in her arms and sitting beside Di!ai (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30033
Display Title "Gao Medicine & family, 1955": /Naoka holding Debe in her arms and sitting beside Di!ai (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 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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"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
/Naoka holding Debe in her arms and sitting beside Di!ai
2001.29.21951 /Naoka holding Debe in her arms and sitting beside Di!ai
Nama Pan
"Gao Medicine & family, 1955": Di!ai sitting, with her son, Debe, standing behind her and smiling at another child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30032 "Gao Medicine & family, 1955": Di!ai sitting, with her son, Debe, standing behind her and smiling at another child (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.28665 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.22705 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31427 "The 1955 study of groups with children": /Naoka (Di!ai's mother), Di!ai with her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seated close together, and !Ungka Norna sitting on !U's lap to the extreme right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai with a bowl, a knife, and a pot of meat beside her, with Debe leaning over her shoulder watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31423 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai with a bowl, a knife, and a pot of meat beside her, with Debe leaning over her shoulder watching (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Children playing, Elizabeth's [Elizabeth Marshall Thomas] 1955 observations": /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying on the ground, with Bau leaning against her and Debe and /Gaishay holding sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31401 "Children playing, Elizabeth's [Elizabeth Marshall Thomas] 1955 observations": /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) lying on the ground, with Bau leaning against her and Debe and /Gaishay holding sticks (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
2001.29.22093 Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: "The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31070 [No folder title]: "The visiting girl" sitting, !U lying down with Norna against her, Di!ai's sons /Gaishay and Debe playing with sticks, and Bau sitting with /Naoka (Di!ai's co-wife) (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Di!ai with Debe sitting in her lap, nursing and clutching a toy bow and arrow, and her arms around /Gaishay (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28740 Di!ai with Debe sitting in her lap, nursing and clutching a toy bow and arrow, and her arms around /Gaishay (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28800 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), /Gaishay (≠Toma and !U's son), and /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Di!ai's son) sitting beside ashes (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy