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[No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30075
Display Title [No folder title]: "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
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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"Band 2, Gao Helmet #28 & extended family": "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30009 "Band 2, Gao Helmet #28 & extended family": "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
2001.29.14361 "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
2001.29.14362 "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
2001.29.14360 "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
2001.29.14363 "Gao Helmet" making an assegai head in his werft, with members of his band sitting around him
Gautscha
"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 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
2001.29.30023.1 "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
Spear, Making: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, holding it on a stone with his foot, with his bed and a child in the background
2001.29.2154 Spear, Making: "Gao Helmet" shaping an assegai blade, holding it on a stone with his foot, with his bed and a child in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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, 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