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"Names on baobab trees": Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs (print of slide 2001.29.2172)
"Names on baobab trees": Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs (print of slide 2001.29.2172)
Object Number 2001.29.30380.1
Display Title "Names on baobab trees": Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs (print of slide 2001.29.2172)
Descriptions
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: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 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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"Names on baobab trees": Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs (print of slide 2001.29.2172)
2001.29.30380 "Names on baobab trees": Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs (print of slide 2001.29.2172)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5925 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5923 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5929 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5927 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5928 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5926 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
"Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
2001.29.5924 "Manghetti" Drawings: Drawings on mangetti trees, made by young girls on female mangetti trees, representing their aprons and the scarification on their legs
Mangetti Forest
Three girls standing in the mangetti forest
2001.29.7738 Three girls standing in the mangetti forest
Tsumkwe
Names on baobab trees: Names carved on the trunk of a baobab tree, close-up (print is a cropped image)
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Gautscha
Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30365.1 Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha