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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 2001.29.30501.1
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): "Women dance with the men / for short periods occasionally / Note the wildebeest tail one man carries / 1952-3 - Catalogue No 107-3"
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 × 17.78 cm (4 3/4 × 7 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)
2001.29.30501.2 "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": "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
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 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
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
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
"/Gao Music" carrying a wildebeeste tail, leading group of men dancing in a line in a daytime dance, including a man in trance behind him, with people in the background sitting, watching
2001.29.17473 "/Gao Music" carrying a wildebeeste tail, leading group of men dancing in a line in a daytime dance, including a man in trance behind him, with people in the background sitting, watching
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" being held by other men who also appear to be in partial trance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30511 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Music" being held by other men who also appear to be in partial trance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gunda sitting on the ground in trance at a daytime dance, with a man kneeling in back of him, leaning his head on his back, /Ti!kay and another man standing near them
2001.29.16261 /Gunda sitting on the ground in trance at a daytime dance, with a man kneeling in back of him, leaning his head on his back, /Ti!kay and another man standing near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Gunda sitting on the ground in trance at a daytime dance, with a man kneeling in back of him, leaning his head on his back, /Ti!kay and another man standing near them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29304 [No folder title]: /Gunda sitting on the ground in trance at a daytime dance, with a man kneeling in back of him, leaning his head on his back, /Ti!kay and another man standing near them (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Group of men dancing through a circle of women sitting, one man's arms outstretched (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30503 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Group of men dancing through a circle of women sitting, one man's arms outstretched (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Men dancing clockwise around an open circle of women at a daytime dance, with /Gam dancing and Gau holding another man's arm (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1592 Dance: Men dancing clockwise around an open circle of women at a daytime dance, with /Gam dancing and Gau holding another man's arm (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