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[No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30422.1
Display Title [No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "48-10 / An old woman has been given the / head in the distribution of meat / She cooked it in a hole in the / ground in hot coals."; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
[No folder title]: Di!ai cutting a wildebeest head with Debe standing beside her and other unidentified people (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31143.2 [No folder title]: Di!ai cutting a wildebeest head with Debe standing beside her and other unidentified people (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30885 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30261 [No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Old /Gasa" cooking a wildebeest head, with her grandson ≠Toma (son of Gau) watching her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25664 "Old /Gasa" cooking a wildebeest head, with her grandson ≠Toma (son of Gau) watching her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" putting a wildebeest head in a hole with coals, with her grandson watching her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30421 [No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" putting a wildebeest head in a hole with coals, with her grandson watching her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting and telling stories, including "Lame ≠Gao," ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama," "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, Crooked /Qui, Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), and ≠Toma (!Naishi's son) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29912 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting and telling stories, including "Lame ≠Gao," ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama," "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, Crooked /Qui, Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), and ≠Toma (!Naishi's son) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao," ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama," "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, Crooked /Qui, Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), and ≠Toma (!Naishi's son) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30880 [No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao," ≠Gao (Khwo//o-/Gasa's husband), "Gao Medicine," an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama," "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, Crooked /Qui, Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), and ≠Toma (!Naishi's son) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25626 Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30422 [No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30422.2 [No folder title]: "Old /Gasa" holding a wildebeest head (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30729.2 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy