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"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for hartebeest (print is a cropped image)
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for hartebeest (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30314
Display Title "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for hartebeest (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "55-59P-15 / L. K. Marshall / The gesture means hartebeest to the !Kung. / (Cf 55-59P-13 for back view) / 55-59P-15"; written on labels adhered to board (verso): "Marshall / 33a / Chap 4 / Hartebeest sign / see also 33"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Ai Ha !O Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
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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"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for hartebeests, which have horns that curve forward (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30312 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for hartebeests, which have horns that curve forward (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30316.1 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for hartebeests, which have horns that curve forward
2001.29.275 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for hartebeests, which have horns that curve forward
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30315 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, showing the horns bent forward
2001.29.20983 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, showing the horns bent forward
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, seen from the front
2001.29.20985 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, seen from the front
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, seen from the front
2001.29.277 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a hartebeest, seen from the front
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30316 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for kudu (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30310 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for kudu (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for wildebeest (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30313 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for wildebeest (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for wildebeest (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30313.1 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for wildebeest (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30315.1 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan