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![[No folder title]: Tsama melons in the grass (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/738617/preview)
Object Number
2001.29.30263
Display Title
[No folder title]: Tsama melons in the grass (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written on board (verso): "Tsama melons near where the / /Gikwe band was living.(See note on 55-59P-22) / Tsama melons are the principal source / of liquid for these /Gikwe, who live / in a part of the Kalahari desert where / there is no water during several / months of the long dry season."
Department
Photographic
Date
1955
Culture
- /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Botswana
/
Ghanzi
/
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
/
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Dimensions
Overall: 20.32 × 16.51 cm (8 × 6 1/2 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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![[No folder title]: //Ku≠tera sitting to empty load of tsama melons from kaross onto ground](/internal/media/dispatcher/748041/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: /Twikwe in profile, carrying tsama melons in kaross tied over her head, full figure standing](/internal/media/dispatcher/748038/postagestamp)
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