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Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30431.1
Display Title [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1951
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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Image Not Available for [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
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30429.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30149 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for [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
Image Not Available for [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
Image Not Available for "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25272 "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for [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
Image Not Available for [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
Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle
2001.29.19301 "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "Move": 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)
2001.29.30765 "Move": 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
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha