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"Mortar and pestle": Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
"Mortar and pestle": Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30418.1
Display Title "Mortar and pestle": Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 15.24 cm (8 × 6 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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"Mortar and pestle": Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30418 "Mortar and pestle": Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up
2001.29.22764 Person using a mortar and pestle, close-up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31125 [No folder title]: Mortar and pestle, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[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
Person sewing, close-up of hands using awl to make a hole for putting a cord through (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27656 Person sewing, close-up of hands using awl to make a hole for putting a cord through (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"Lame !Kham": !Kham standing with sticks as crutches, his wife pounding with a mortar and pestle, and two of his children at their dwelling place; meat he has been given hangs from a tree branch (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30001 "Lame !Kham": !Kham standing with sticks as crutches, his wife pounding with a mortar and pestle, and two of his children at their dwelling place; meat he has been given hangs from a tree branch (print is a cropped image)
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
"Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30417 "Mortar and pestle": Di!ai, wife of Gao, pounding something in a mortar, with a child sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Visiting boy" pounding something in mortar with pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27649 "Visiting boy" pounding something in mortar with pestle (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Mortar and pestle, close-up
2001.29.22765 Mortar and pestle, close-up
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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
Person sewing, close-up of hands putting unrolled vegetable fiber through a hole in leather (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27658 Person sewing, close-up of hands putting unrolled vegetable fiber through a hole in leather (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan