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"Mortar and pestle": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
"Mortar and pestle": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30414
Display Title "Mortar and pestle": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Not used in Marriage / 10-3 / Little girl playing with / Mortar & pestle"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for publication / copy no. / L. Marshall"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Historic Place Name
Africa / South West Africa
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience
"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31238.2 "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25544 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31238.1 "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31238 "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.19480 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25101 Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her
2001.29.19481 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30525 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30525.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha