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"Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
"Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30417
Display Title "Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 13.97 × 20.32 cm (5 1/2 × 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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Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar; a child sitting behind her
2001.29.22625 Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar; a child sitting behind her
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Close up of Di!ai (wife of Gao) pounding something, using a mortar (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31115 [No folder title]: Close up of Di!ai (wife of Gao) pounding something, using a mortar (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar
2001.29.28597 Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar
Nama Pan
Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar
2001.29.22624 Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something, using a mortar
Nama Pan
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1362 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1361 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (soon after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
2001.29.1360 Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Di!ai (second wife of "Gao Medicine") pounding something beside her fire, with her son, /Gaishay, sitting beside her
2001.29.1655 Food, Cooking: Di!ai (second wife of "Gao Medicine") pounding something beside her fire, with her son, /Gaishay, sitting beside her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29056 "Old /Gasa" sitting, legs straight out, pounding something with mortar and pestle; her grandson sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30057 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle while her child watches (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Mortar and pestle": ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30416 "Mortar and pestle": ≠Toma's sister pounding something with mortar and pestle, with her child sitting next to her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Mortar and pestle": Khuan//a (wife of Gau) pounding something in her mortar (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30415 "Mortar and pestle": Khuan//a (wife of Gau) pounding something in her mortar (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha