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Image Not Available for 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)
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)
Image Not Available for 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)
Object Number 2001.29.30203
Display Title 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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Exp III b & w 120-130-5 / Cracking Mangetti nuts"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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: 9.525 × 12.065 cm (3 3/4 × 4 3/4 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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Image Not Available for "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is an enlarged and reversed image)
2001.29.25843.2 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is an enlarged and reversed image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts
2001.29.735.2 [No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts
Mangetti Forest
Image Not Available for "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25843.1 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
Man wearing a bracelet on his leg, sitting, cracking mangetti nuts on a stone, with the nutshells on the ground in front of him
2001.29.15077 Man wearing a bracelet on his leg, sitting, cracking mangetti nuts on a stone, with the nutshells on the ground in front of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking mangetti nuts (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25882.1 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking mangetti nuts (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
2001.29.30524.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Gautscha
!U, N!ai, and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of people in front of a skerm, cracking mangetti nuts
2001.29.17016 !U, N!ai, and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of people in front of a skerm, cracking mangetti nuts
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
N!ai and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of people cracking mangetti nuts, with a boy in a tree above them, John Marshall squatting near them
2001.29.17015 N!ai and ≠Nisa sitting with a group of people cracking mangetti nuts, with a boy in a tree above them, John Marshall squatting near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.735 [No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts (print is a cropped image)
Mangetti Forest
"/Gao Music" and another man standing, carrying their hunting equipment, including an assegai, with a group of people sitting, cracking mangetti nuts near them
2001.29.17025 "/Gao Music" and another man standing, carrying their hunting equipment, including an assegai, with a group of people sitting, cracking mangetti nuts near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him
2001.29.14341 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him
Mangetti Forest
Image Not Available for "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him
2001.29.25843 "Gao Medicine" cracking mangettis, with another man with bow beside him
Gautscha