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"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30316
Display Title "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "55-59P-17 / L. K. Marshall / The gesture means wildebeest, buffalo / or wart hog to the !Kung. Emphasis / is on the wide apart horns and, / in the case of the hog, the tusks / wide apart in the nose. For / wildebeest the hand is held upright, / for hog the hand is parallel to / the ground. When the same gesture / is used to indicate two or more / animals the !Kung distinguish between / them sometimes by making a motion / with their hand and arm which / imitates the running motion of the animal. / (Cf 55-59P-14 for back view.) / 140"
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 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 wildebeests, which have widely spread horns
2001.29.278 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a wildebeest, buffalo or warthog, with wide-apart horns or tusks
2001.29.20987 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a wildebeest, buffalo or warthog, with wide-apart horns or tusks
/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; 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 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
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 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 kudu, with the fingers slightly tilted to mirror the bend in the animal’s horns (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30311 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for kudu, with the fingers slightly tilted to mirror the bend in the animal’s horns (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; probably sign for a lion, with a rounded paw
2001.29.279 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; probably sign for a lion, with a rounded paw
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; probably sign for a lion, with a rounded paw (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30317 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; probably sign for a lion, with a rounded paw (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for kudu, with the fingers slightly tilted to mirror the bend in the animal’s horns
2001.29.274 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for kudu, with the fingers slightly tilted to mirror the bend in the animal’s horns
/Ai Ha !O Pan