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"Boys playing at hunting": Boy shooting with a bow and arrow (print is a cropped image)
"Boys playing at hunting": Boy shooting with a bow and arrow (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30280.1
Display Title "Boys playing at hunting": Boy shooting with a bow and arrow (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A !Kung boy with / bow and arrow"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
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: 15.875 × 11.43 cm (6 1/4 × 4 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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"Boys playing at hunting": /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") squatting and holding a quiver and bow (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30283 "Boys playing at hunting": /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") squatting and holding a quiver and bow (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys playing at hunting": Boy shooting with a bow and arrow (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30280 "Boys playing at hunting": Boy shooting with a bow and arrow (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31316.1 "Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Boy carrying bow and quiver (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30289.1 [No folder title]: Boy carrying bow and quiver (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31225.1 "Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31212 "Children in groups": Group of men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys playing hunting": /Gaishay shooting an arrow (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31402 "Boys playing hunting": /Gaishay shooting an arrow (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Children in groups": Girl playing a //guashi, sitting with a group of girls and boys (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31216 "Children in groups": Girl playing a //guashi, sitting with a group of girls and boys (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Boy carrying bow and quiver (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30289.2 [No folder title]: Boy carrying bow and quiver (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Toys, Gun, Tsamgao's camera": Toy cars made from veldkos by boys (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31333 "Toys, Gun, Tsamgao's camera": Toy cars made from veldkos by boys (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.800.1 "Pulling on Kaross / Pulling on Gemsbok Horns / Carrying on Kaross "Airplane".": Two boys pulling "Little /Qui" on a kaross, a game they frequently played (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including //Ao (husband of Khuan//a, daughter of /Gaishay of Band 4), who is stretching out his hand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25601 Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including //Ao (husband of Khuan//a, daughter of /Gaishay of Band 4), who is stretching out his hand (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha