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[No folder title]: Woman sitting in the grass by a hole she made digging up a root (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Woman sitting in the grass by a hole she made digging up a root (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30078
Display Title [No folder title]: Woman sitting in the grass by a hole she made digging up a root (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
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paper
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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Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30205 Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
2001.29.30205.1 Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Gautscha
Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
2001.29.14384 Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30207 Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Be, daughter of Bo, standing, with a piece of veldkos she gathered tied in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30661 [No folder title]: Be, daughter of Bo, standing, with a piece of veldkos she gathered tied in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Woman holding her digging stick and veldkos, and sitting next to the hole in the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30132 [No folder title]: Woman holding her digging stick and veldkos, and sitting next to the hole in the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29282 [No folder title]: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29281 [No folder title]: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting near her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30197 Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting near her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman holding the stem of an edible root, picking it out from the grass (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30208 Digging for roots: Woman holding the stem of an edible root, picking it out from the grass (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31151 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Woman digging up a root, with a baby tied to her back
2001.29.737 Woman digging up a root, with a baby tied to her back
Gautscha