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Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.736.1
Display Title Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph: "[Please return] / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass. / [handwritten annotation: 02138]"
Object Description A !Kung woman digging a root. This picture was published in the South West Africa Annual, 1956, p. 11. Anneliese Scherz-Windhock Box 180. 136-11.
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: 9.8425 × 12.065 cm (3 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736 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]: Woman digging veldkos with her digging stick, with her baby tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30079 [No folder title]: Woman digging veldkos with her digging stick, with her baby tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back
2001.29.14394 Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Bau from Band 10 digging for veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30906 [No folder title]: Bau from Band 10 digging for veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
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]: 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
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
Food Gathering, Children: Bau of Band 10 digging, holding veldkos in her hand, with her child tied to her back
2001.29.1709 Food Gathering, Children: Bau of Band 10 digging, holding veldkos in her hand, with her child tied to her back
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, Children: Woman digging, holding a stem that indicates veldkos, with a child tied to her back
2001.29.1716 Food Gathering, Children: Woman digging, holding a stem that indicates veldkos, with a child tied to her back
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31257 "Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (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)
2001.29.30214.1 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