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"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30395
Display Title "Scraping hides, working on hides": 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): "LB43808 / 149-2"; stamped on photograph: "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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: 17.145 × 12.065 cm (6 3/4 × 4 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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