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Object Number
2001.29.30385.1
Display Title
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "149-2 / 119 1/2% / A !Kung Bushman makes a bag from the whole / hide of a wart hog. Such bags are used for / carrying wild plant foods like mangetti nuts / on tsi. Cf. 161-10 35 mm. 1952-3 / or for hunting bags. / The young men beside him are lying beside / the boys' fire. Young unmarried men and / boys sleep by a fire, away from / their family fire / 10 / 69p / Published in Natural History / August-Sept 1958 p. 378 / Making / water-skin / 120 / # 149-2 (1952-3)"; stamped on photograph: "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University", "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass.", "For restricted use / [crossed out: not for publication] / copy no. / L. Marshall" and "2400"
Department
Photographic
Date
1952-1953
Artist
Anneliese Scherz
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/
Gautscha
Materials
Print, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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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