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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)
Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30204
Display Title Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
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
!U pulling up a root and //Kushay beside her holding !Ungka Norna
2001.29.14306 !U pulling up a root and //Kushay beside her holding !Ungka Norna
Gautscha
!U pulling up a root and //Kushay beside her holding Norna
2001.29.25822 !U pulling up a root and //Kushay beside her holding Norna
Gautscha
!U holding a root and //Kushay beside her holding !Ungka Norna
2001.29.14303 !U holding a root and //Kushay beside her holding !Ungka Norna
Gautscha
!U holding a root and //Kushay beside her holding Norna
2001.29.25820 !U holding a root and //Kushay beside her holding Norna
Gautscha
Fiber Root: //Kushay standing, holding fiber roots and carrying a child, with !U standing behind her
2001.29.1840 Fiber Root: //Kushay standing, holding fiber roots and carrying a child, with !U standing behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Fiber Root: !U and //Kushay digging fiber roots
2001.29.1839 Fiber Root: !U and //Kushay digging fiber roots
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Fiber Root: //Kushay holding a child and looking for fiber roots to dig with !U
2001.29.1843 Fiber Root: //Kushay holding a child and looking for fiber roots to dig with !U
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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
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
Fiber Root: //Kushay (wife of /Qui) squatting, holding a long orange root from which cord is made, with a kaross filled with something on the ground behind her
2001.29.1837 Fiber Root: //Kushay (wife of /Qui) squatting, holding a long orange root from which cord is made, with a kaross filled with something on the ground behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"[Robert] Story, gathering photos": //Kushay standing next to Robert Story sitting pulling out a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30340 "[Robert] Story, gathering photos": //Kushay standing next to Robert Story sitting pulling out a root (print is a cropped image)
/Gam