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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30498.1
Display Title "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / Women and boys dance for fun before / the ceremonial curing dance gets into full / swing. More women have gathered / 104/9 / 104-9"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 20.32 cm (4 3/4 × 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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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30498 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30496 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": /Naoka (Gao Medicine's first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Two women and boys dancing, with a group of women sitting and clapping at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30495.2 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Two women and boys dancing, with a group of women sitting and clapping at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them
2001.29.14263 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them
Gautscha
/Naoka and boys dancing
2001.29.25785.1 /Naoka and boys dancing
Gautscha
/Naoka and boys dancing
2001.29.25785 /Naoka and boys dancing
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30505.1 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30161 [No folder title]: /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dance at the beginning of a dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": "Old /Gam" dancing and a medicine man (right) holding the arms of another who is in trance and leading him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30501 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": "Old /Gam" dancing and a medicine man (right) holding the arms of another who is in trance and leading him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka and boys dancing, with a group of women sitting and clapping in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29902 [No folder title]: /Naoka and boys dancing, with a group of women sitting and clapping in the background (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1606 Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with a man performing a ritual curing
2001.29.1605 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a circle of women sitting at a daytime dance, with a man performing a ritual curing
Nyae Nyae Conservancy