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"Mortar and pestle": Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
"Mortar and pestle": Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30419
Display Title "Mortar and pestle": Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in ink on photograph (verso): "Elizabeth Thomas"
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 13.97 × 12.7 cm (5 1/2 × 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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Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.16190 Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.16189 Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.16188 Man sitting next to a fire in front of his skerm, pounding with a mortar and pestle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with two women preparing mangetti nuts near him
2001.29.16226 Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with two women preparing mangetti nuts near him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with a wooden spoon, pot, enamel bowl and tin can on the ground near him
2001.29.16229 Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with a wooden spoon, pot, enamel bowl and tin can on the ground near him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16373 /Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with a wooden spoon, pot, enamel bowl and tin can on the ground near him
2001.29.16219 Man pounding with a mortar and pestle, sitting in the opening of his skerm, with a wooden spoon, pot, enamel bowl and tin can on the ground near him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16375 /Ti!kay sitting next to a fire with a woman with a mortar and pestle, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: Men sitting with "Old Gau" at his dwelling place, including "Old ≠Toma," ≠Gao, "Old /Gaishay," and /Qui (Gau's son-in-law); Gau cracking nuts with a fire paddle and ≠Gao pounding something with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.1880 Groups: Men sitting with "Old Gau" at his dwelling place, including "Old ≠Toma," ≠Gao, "Old /Gaishay," and /Qui (Gau's son-in-law); Gau cracking nuts with a fire paddle and ≠Gao pounding something with a mortar and pestle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting with /Naoka and N!ai (his wives) next to his fire in front of a skerm; N!ai is pounding something in a mortar
2001.29.14843 /Ti!kay sitting with /Naoka and N!ai (his wives) next to his fire in front of a skerm; N!ai is pounding something in a mortar
Gautscha
Woman using a mortar and pestle, with /Ti!kay's hands putting grass on a fire next to her, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind her
2001.29.16374 Woman using a mortar and pestle, with /Ti!kay's hands putting grass on a fire next to her, boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16372 /Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy