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"Healing babies": "/Qui Navel" in trance, curing Norna, held by ≠Toma, her father (print is a cropped image)
"Healing babies": "/Qui Navel" in trance, curing Norna, held by ≠Toma, her father (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30407
Display Title "Healing babies": "/Qui Navel" in trance, curing Norna, held by ≠Toma, her father (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Tsho/ana / ≠Toma & Norna; Norna cured by ?"; written on note with photograph: "G223 / I had a better sharper lighter / print which I sent to / David Lewis Williams May 1987"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Kavango East / Kaudom National Park / Cho/ana
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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