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[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30391.2
Display Title [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "124%- / A !Kung Bushman stretching a hide parparatory [preparatory?] to / scraping it and softening it. From such hides karosses / are made (gemsbok preferred) It is the work of men to / and sew and shape the carrying bags and make the / garments because they are made of hide and / associated with the hunt. / 12 / 48p / B1617/18-5/110 / 13 / Published in Natural History August. Sept. 1958. p. 380 / 124 / # 26 / 158-8 / # 158-8"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University", "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass.", "[crossed out: For restricted use / not for publication / copy no.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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