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"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30394
Display Title "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Exp VI - Bw 120-80-12 / Scraping a hide / with an adze / He scrapes toward / himself"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for publication / copy no."
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 9.525 cm (4 3/4 × 3 3/4 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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Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground
2001.29.15942 Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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
"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
Man sitting on a hide, scraping it with an adze, with the scrapings in a bowl and on the hide in front of him
2001.29.15940 Man sitting on a hide, scraping it with an adze, with the scrapings in a bowl and on the hide in front of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting on a hide he has been scraping, fixing his adze
2001.29.15941 Man sitting on a hide he has been scraping, fixing his adze
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27192 Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20796 Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Man scraping a hide, sitting with ≠Toma and another man
2001.29.16005 Man scraping a hide, sitting with ≠Toma and another man
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30393 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma sitting on an animal hide, talking to someone out of frame, with two adzes on the hide in front of him, scrapings of the animal hide around him
2001.29.15056 ≠Toma sitting on an animal hide, talking to someone out of frame, with two adzes on the hide in front of him, scrapings of the animal hide around him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" sits on a hide pegged to the ground, scraping it with his adze
2001.29.16105 "/Gao Music" sits on a hide pegged to the ground, scraping it with his adze
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20868 /Twikwe's possessions, including (left to right) tortoise shell spoon, three pieces of bone used for pounding and grinding, a bone dish used for mixing poison for arrows, and two pieces of ostrich bone used to give a hide a last, fine scraping, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan