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"Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
"Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30464
Display Title "Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / Okwa
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 × 20.32 cm (6 × 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
"Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30464.1 "Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30464.2 "Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30472 "Firemaking": Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": Firesticks held in position for fire making (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30469 "Firemaking": Firesticks held in position for fire making (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking': Sticks held in position for fire making (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30467 "Firemaking': Sticks held in position for fire making (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": Man adding tinder to a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30465 "Firemaking": Man adding tinder to a fire (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": Man who made the fire holding the firesticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30476 "Firemaking": Man who made the fire holding the firesticks (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30463 "Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30463.1 "Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Man making a fire
2001.29.19600 Man making a fire
Okwa
"Firemaking": Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30479 "Firemaking": Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Firemaking": Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30478 "Firemaking": Dam and ≠Gao creating a fire with firesticks; unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy