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[No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) and Gao working on a large kaross with their hands (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) and Gao working on a large kaross with their hands (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30388
Display Title [No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) and Gao working on a large kaross with their hands (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 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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[No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) and Gao working on a large kaross with their hands (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30390 [No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) and Gao working on a large kaross with their hands (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) at a waterhole, with 5 ostrich egg shells next to him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29903 [No folder title]: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) at a waterhole, with 5 ostrich egg shells next to him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including (left to right) "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," unidentified person seen from behind, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" with her hands over her head, "Gao Helmet" in profile, "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30878 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including (left to right) "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," unidentified person seen from behind, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" with her hands over her head, "Gao Helmet" in profile, "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30058 [No folder title]: //Kushay (Gao's second wife) standing and nursing her baby, Xama, in a kaross and an unidentified child beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30885 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: 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)
2001.29.30097 [No folder title]: 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
Two men working a kaross with their hands
2001.29.25418 Two men working a kaross with their hands
Gautscha
Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including left to right: "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," unidentified person seen from behind, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" with her hands over her head, "Gao Helmet" in profile, "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui", Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife)  (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25557 Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including left to right: "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," unidentified person seen from behind, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" with her hands over her head, "Gao Helmet" in profile, "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui", Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Gao (leader of Band 10) at the waterhole, with 5 ostrich egg shells next to him
2001.29.13907 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) at the waterhole, with 5 ostrich egg shells next to him
Gautscha
≠Gao (leader of Band 10, husband of Bau and !Ghia), portrait
2001.29.14626 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10, husband of Bau and !Ghia), portrait
Gautscha
≠Gao (leader of Band 10, husband of Bau and !Ghia), portrait
2001.29.14623 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10, husband of Bau and !Ghia), portrait
Gautscha
"Mongolian spot": Bau (wife of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10) sitting and holding her daughter !Ungka (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30768 "Mongolian spot": Bau (wife of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10) sitting and holding her daughter !Ungka (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha