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[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) cooking a pot full mangetti nuts on a fire (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) cooking a pot full mangetti nuts on a fire (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30424
Display Title [No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) cooking a pot full mangetti nuts on a fire (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / !Kung woman cooking mangetti nuts in / a pot (obtained by trade with Tswana in B.P. The !Kung do not make / pottery) / 138/3 / 138-3"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180]"
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: 15.24 × 10.16 cm (6 × 4 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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