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Arrow giving: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Arrow giving: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30291
Display Title Arrow giving: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in red on photograph (verso): "7 A 1 / 78%"; written in pencil on photograph (verso): "224-1 / 224-1 / # 9"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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Arrow giving: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30291.1 Arrow giving: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Arrow: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel"
2001.29.11883 Arrow: "Old Gau" giving an arrow to "Qui /Navel"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25626 Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30277 [No folder title]: "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.26011.1 /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha
"Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law
2001.29.25900 "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law
Gautscha
"Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law
2001.29.14438 "Old Gau" giving arrows to "/Qui Navel," his son-in-law
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.1 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of their skerm, including his son ≠Toma (by his first wife), his son !Naishi, Be (his first wife), Gau, Khuan//a (his second wife), their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son by a first husband), and ≠Gao (son of Be and Bau)
2001.29.25692 Gau of Band 2 sitting with his family in front of their skerm, including his son ≠Toma (by his first wife), his son !Naishi, Be (his first wife), Gau, Khuan//a (his second wife), their son /Qui, /Gunda (Khuan//a's son by a first husband), and ≠Gao (son of Be and Bau)
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" seated to the right watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25560 "/Qui Navel" making arrows by a fire and an unidentified person and "Old Gau" seated to the right watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha