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Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
Object Number 2001.29.272.1
Display Title Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A woman smoking a metal pipe / From slide / 10B-93 / Is there a B/W neg?"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / Not for publication / Copy no. / L. Marshall"
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.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe made from a cartridge (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30877 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe made from a cartridge (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
2001.29.32004 Smoking: Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
Gautscha
Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
2001.29.272 Woman wearing blue beads in her hair, smoking a pipe made from a cartridge
Gautscha
"Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30871.1 "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30031.1 "Gao Medicine": "Gao Medicine," profile (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.3 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30431 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30429.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ornaments & beads": Woman of Band 11 putting an ostrich eggshell headband on her child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30790.1 "Ornaments & beads": Woman of Band 11 putting an ostrich eggshell headband on her child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha