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[No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30429.1
Display Title [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Woman (Xama) cooking veldkos. / 310-4 / 3"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for publication / copy no. / [L]. Marshall"
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 17.4625 cm (4 3/4 × 6 7/8 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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[No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30431 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30431.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
2001.29.30516.3 "N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
Gautscha
[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 Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29951 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31280 "Nursing": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground and an unidentified child in her lap (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.3 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (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
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391.2 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29937 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !U sitting and holding Norna in her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29955 [No folder title]: !U sitting and holding Norna in her lap (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha