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"Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30393
Display Title "Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (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
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 14.2875 × 20.32 cm (5 5/8 × 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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"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30433 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30434 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30293 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25426.1 "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30292 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30395 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25425 "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
"Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25426 "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30394 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Four men, including "Crooked /Qui," digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25427 Four men, including "Crooked /Qui," digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30293.1 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and three other men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha