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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)
Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
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)
Object Number 2001.29.30207
Display Title Digging for roots: Woman holding veldkos, and sitting next to the hole she dug it out of (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Negative defective / as of February 1977 / Smaller, earlier print / is O.K."
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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Woman holding veldkos, sitting next to the hole she dug it out of
2001.29.14395 Woman holding veldkos, sitting next to the hole she dug it out of
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [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: 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
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, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
2001.29.1724 Food Gathering, Children: Woman starting to pick up her baby, with a large veldkos on the ground next to the hole she had dug
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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)
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
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
Image Not Available for 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
Image Not Available for Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
2001.29.1995 Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
2001.29.2000 Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
2001.29.2006 Marriage: N!ai sitting with /Gunda next to a fire in front of their skerm, after she went out to gather veldkos
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Bau of Band 10 digging, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30213 Digging for roots: Bau of Band 10 digging, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy