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[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30161
Display Title [No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on note stapled to paper: "104-5 / !Kung boys and / a woman / dancing inform- / ally before / the ceremonial / dance begins / only a few women / have gathered / as yet, to begin / the singing / Cf 104-9"
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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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30496 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance
2001.29.14259 /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance
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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30498.1 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Boys and other men approaching, dancing at the beginning of a daytime dance, with the circle of women sitting open at the front, "Gao Medicine" dancing with two little boys following him on the right
2001.29.1597 Dance: Boys and other men approaching, dancing at the beginning of a daytime dance, with the circle of women sitting open at the front, "Gao Medicine" dancing with two little boys following him on the right
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Children": Boys and other men approaching, dancing at the beginning of a daytime dance, with the circle of women sitting open at the front, "Gao Medicine" dancing with two little boys following him on the right
2001.29.31441 "Children": Boys and other men approaching, dancing at the beginning of a daytime dance, with the circle of women sitting open at the front, "Gao Medicine" dancing with two little boys following him on the right
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30498 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: //Khuga dancing with a line of men around a circle of women sitting at the beginning of a dance, with little boys following "Gao Medicine" (copy of slide 7B-75)
2001.29.11988.1 Dance: //Khuga dancing with a line of men around a circle of women sitting at the beginning of a dance, with little boys following "Gao Medicine" (copy of slide 7B-75)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: //Khuga dancing with a line of men around a circle of women sitting at the beginning of a dance, with little boys following "Gao Medicine" (copy of slide 7B-75)
2001.29.11988 Dance: //Khuga dancing with a line of men around a circle of women sitting at the beginning of a dance, with little boys following "Gao Medicine" (copy of slide 7B-75)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) beginning to go into trance
2001.29.14901 Group of people dancing in a night dance, with /Gunda (N!ai's husband) beginning to go into trance
Gautscha
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them
2001.29.14263 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them
Gautscha
Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance, turning after dancing through the circle of women sitting, with //Khuga sitting and "Gao Medicine" followed by two little boys, shows circle in the sand made by the feet of the dancers
2001.29.1602 Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance, turning after dancing through the circle of women sitting, with //Khuga sitting and "Gao Medicine" followed by two little boys, shows circle in the sand made by the feet of the dancers
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Night dance, /Gunda beginning to go into trance
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Gautscha