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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)
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)
Object Number 2001.29.30214
Display Title 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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 5 From slide &c-24 / B/W Negative no 224-? / Made February 1977"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Mrs. Laurence K. Marshall / 4 Bryant Street / Cambridge, Massachusetts [handwritten annotation: , 02138]"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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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
Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25098 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25099 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.25097 Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food Gathering, General: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
2001.29.1748 Food Gathering, General: Woman digging, her digging stick in her left hand, pulling sand out of a hole with her right hand
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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
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
Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30286 Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (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
Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30286.1 Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30200 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy