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[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30420.1
Display Title [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "10-36 / Published in Natural History. / August, 1958 / 10-36 / Hunter poisoning his arrows with / poison beetle larvae See not[e] / on photo X-4""; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
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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[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30059 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.3 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.2 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30292 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poisonous beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30463.1 "Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30298 Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30433 "With tsama": "Crooked /Qui" and an unidentified man digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30286.1 Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30286 Tsi: Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting, with a pile of tsi, bags and digging stick on the ground near her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562.2 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha