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Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30205
Display Title Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations 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: 17.78 × 20.32 cm (7 × 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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Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
2001.29.30205.1 Digging for roots: Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Gautscha
Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
2001.29.14384 Woman sitting next to a hole from which she has dug up a root
Gautscha
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for Food Gathering, Children: Woman holding a large root she has dug up, sitting with a child next to her, showing her scarification on her face
2001.29.1715 Food Gathering, Children: Woman holding a large root she has dug up, sitting with a child next to her, showing her scarification on her face
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for Food Gathering, General: N!ai holding a root she has dug up
2001.29.253.12 Food Gathering, General: N!ai holding a root she has dug up
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and holding a root she has dug up
2001.29.1757 Food Gathering, General: Woman sitting and holding a root she has dug up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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)
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
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for Food Gathering, General: Woman holding a root that she has dug
2001.29.5803 Food Gathering, General: Woman holding a root that she has dug
Gautscha