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[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30442
Display Title [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (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 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 17.145 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/4 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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[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30442.2 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30442.1 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree with no leaves (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Baobab tree with no leaves
2001.29.375 Baobab tree with no leaves
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30444 [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30448.1 [Baobab tree]: Large baobab tree that has names carved into the trunk, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: Baobab trees (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30445 [Baobab tree]: Baobab trees (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.877 [Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Ao, son-in-law of "Old /Gaishay," chopping a dead tree with an axe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25634.1 //Ao, son-in-law of "Old /Gaishay," chopping a dead tree with an axe (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
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736.1 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
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" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha