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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 2001.29.30316.1
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 Typed on label adhered to board (verso): "#55-59P-17 - From Laurence K. Marshall / Bechuan[a]land / Kalahari Bushmen. / Gestures made by Kung hunters - Wilde beest."; written in ink on labels adhered to board (verso): "Marshall / 33 / Chap. 4 / wildebeest sign / see also 33a"; stamped on board (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "Rec'd Jan 1961"; written in red on board (verso): "To be printed with / 33a as one photo"; written on plastic sleeve: "crop 1/2" / [verso] 33 / Chap 4 / wildebeest sign / To be printed with 33 / as one photo / Marshall 55-59-17"
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 Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 24.13 × 15.24 cm (9 1/2 × 6 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 "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 hartebeest (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30314 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for hartebeest (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
"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
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; 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 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
"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 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
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for an unidentified animal (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30320 "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; 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