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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 2001.29.30464.1
Display Title "Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A !Kung man making fire with fire sticks. Twirling one in / a notch in the other"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / Okwa
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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": ≠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
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30385.2 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30385.1 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Firemaking": Man adding tinder to a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30477 "Firemaking": Man adding tinder to a fire (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Boys' fire": Man making a bag from the whole skin of a wild pig, with a group of men sitting behind him
2001.29.30384 "Boys' fire": Man making a bag from the whole skin of a wild pig, with a group of men sitting behind him
Gautscha
"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": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30464 "Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
"Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707.1 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Arrows, arrow poison: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30300 Arrows, arrow poison: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (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 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" pounding a piece of animal skin with a fire paddle (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[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
"Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31225.2 "Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha