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N!whakwe and a "visiting baby" playing with a tsama melon and a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
N!whakwe and a "visiting baby" playing with a tsama melon and a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.27677
Display Title N!whakwe and a "visiting baby" playing with a tsama melon and a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
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: 16.1925 × 20.1613 cm (6 3/8 × 7 15/16 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
N!whakwe and a "visiting baby" playing with a tsama melon and a digging stick
2001.29.21415 N!whakwe and a "visiting baby" playing with a tsama melon and a digging stick
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue and N!whakwe with tsama melon seeds in tins, used as containers (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26914 Tsekue and N!whakwe with tsama melon seeds in tins, used as containers (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
!Gai sitting, Tsekue opening a tsama melon, and N!whakwe walking (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26906 !Gai sitting, Tsekue opening a tsama melon, and N!whakwe walking (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
Person opening and tsama melon with a digging stick and being filmed by John Marshall, with Dabe, Ledimo and Lorna Marshall watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27022 Person opening and tsama melon with a digging stick and being filmed by John Marshall, with Dabe, Ledimo and Lorna Marshall watching (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31343 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"With tsama": !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Tsekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30440 "With tsama": !Gai's family eating tsama melons (Back to front, left to right: //Ku≠tera, /Twikwe, Tsekue, N!whakwe, and !Gai) (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe carrying tsama melons in her kaross and digging stick on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26904 /Twikwe carrying tsama melons in her kaross and digging stick on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
//Kwaiǂkabe opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27003 //Kwaiǂkabe opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27124 Tsekue with N!whakwe on her back leaning over to pick up a tsama melon (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"With tsama": !Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30435 "With tsama": !Gai seated, opening a tsama melon with a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue in a kaross with N!whakwe tied to her back, standing holding a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27673 Tsekue in a kaross with N!whakwe tied to her back, standing holding a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Tsekue wearing a kaross, with N!whakwe tied to her back, holding a digging stick, full figure (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27674 Tsekue wearing a kaross, with N!whakwe tied to her back, holding a digging stick, full figure (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan