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"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)
"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)
Object Number 2001.29.30501
Display Title "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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / Another moment in the dance. All the men standing are / Medicine men - some more active than others. Note / the three on the right. A woman (Old /Gam[)] whose / picture making ostrich egg shell beads is among thos sent, / is dancing for a moment with the men. / 107/3 / 107-3"; 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 × 19.05 cm (4 3/4 × 7 1/2 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": "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)
2001.29.30501.1 "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
"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)
2001.29.30501.2 "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
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30508.1 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance split and going two directions, with /Gam dancing clockwise and Gau counter-clockwise while he holds the arm of a man who may be going into trance (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1590 Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance split and going two directions, with /Gam dancing clockwise and Gau counter-clockwise while he holds the arm of a man who may be going into trance (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
Group of men performing a curing dance, including /Gam dancing in the middle and a young man dancing behind her
2001.29.25802.1 Group of men performing a curing dance, including /Gam dancing in the middle and a young man dancing behind her
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30508.2 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
2001.29.14279 Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
Gautscha
Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
2001.29.25801 Group of men performing a curing dance around seated women, including /Gam and a medicine man holding another who is in trance
Gautscha
Dance: "Old /Gam," Khuan//a (wife of "Gao Helmet," sister of "Gao Medicine"), and an unidentified woman carrying a baby are dancing with the men at a daytime counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1576 Dance: "Old /Gam," Khuan//a (wife of "Gao Helmet," sister of "Gao Medicine"), and an unidentified woman carrying a baby are dancing with the men at a daytime counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting (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: /Gam leading the men dancing through a circle of women at a daytime dance, with the man behind her holding a wildebeest tail (which men often carry in a dance) over her head (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1588 Dance: /Gam leading the men dancing through a circle of women at a daytime dance, with the man behind her holding a wildebeest tail (which men often carry in a dance) over her head (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: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with /Gam leading (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1587 Dance: Men dancing at a daytime dance, with /Gam leading (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
"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