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"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30385.2
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"Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass.", "For restricted use / [crossed out: not for publication] / copy no.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: 17.78 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 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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"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30385.1 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
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2001.29.30287 Tsi: Two men standing and holding skin bags full of tsi over their shoulders (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, and men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29884 [No folder title]: Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, and men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30385 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
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Man making a bag from wild pig skin, with a group of men sitting behind him
2001.29.14468 Man making a bag from wild pig skin, with a group of men sitting behind him
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2001.29.31526 "Misc. prints with no numbers": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391.2 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from the whole skin of a wild pig, with a group of men sitting behind him
2001.29.30384 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from the whole skin of a wild pig, with a group of men sitting behind him
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391.1 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Bag making: Man making a skin bag from the whole skin of a wart hog, with four young men sitting behind him and a tortoise shell hanging in a nearby tree with bow and quiver
2001.29.1294 Bag making: Man making a skin bag from the whole skin of a wart hog, with four young men sitting behind him and a tortoise shell hanging in a nearby tree with bow and quiver
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"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha