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Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting near her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting near her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30197
Display Title Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting near her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "111 1/2 % / !Kung Bushmen women digging for long orange roots / from which they take long fibers which / men or women roll into cord. Carrying / nets are made of such cord / 108 / 42 1/2 / /2 / Published in Natural History June-July 1958, p. 297 / caption was wrong - this is not the red bark / #127-5 / 1952-3"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass.", "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University" and "1692"
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
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30204 Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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
Women gathering the long orange roots from which they make fiber cord
2001.29.25819 Women gathering the long orange roots from which they make fiber cord
Gautscha
Digging for roots: N!ai examining a root, and another woman digging next to her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30202.1 Digging for roots: N!ai examining a root, and another woman digging next to her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30201 Digging for roots: /Naoka digging for a root in the grass with her digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Tsi gathering: Two men gathering tsi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30241 Tsi gathering: Two men gathering tsi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30214 Digging for roots: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand (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
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736.1 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Women gathering long orange roots from which they make fiber cord (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30073 [No folder title]: Women gathering long orange roots from which they make fiber cord (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Women gathering the long orange roots from which they make fiber cord
2001.29.14302 Women gathering the long orange roots from which they make fiber cord
Gautscha
Digging for roots: "Gao Medicine" cracking mangetti nuts on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30203 Digging for roots: "Gao Medicine" cracking mangetti nuts on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha