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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30505.1
Display Title "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "At a !Kung ceremonial dance, during an / interval between dances, the dancing men / rest (to the left), spectators watch from / under the tree (right) and the women remain sitting in the dance circle. The track /the men make in the sand as they dance / around the circle of women is clearly seen. / The role of the women is to clap and / sing the ceremonial "Medicine" songs whil / the men dance. / 108-6 / L. K. Marshall"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180" and "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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: 15.875 × 20.955 cm (6 1/4 × 8 1/4 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": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30505 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men sitting and resting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
People resting during an interval between dances, with the men all sitting
2001.29.14294 People resting during an interval between dances, with the men all sitting
Gautscha
"1952, The Daytime Dance at Gautscha, various scenes of the circle": People standing and sitting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31232 "1952, The Daytime Dance at Gautscha, various scenes of the circle": People standing and sitting during an interval between dances (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
People standing and sitting during an interval between dances
2001.29.14292 People standing and sitting during an interval between dances
Gautscha
People resting during an interval between dances
2001.29.14293 People resting during an interval between dances
Gautscha
Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance, turning after dancing through the circle of women sitting, with //Khuga sitting and "Gao Medicine" followed by two little boys, shows circle in the sand made by the feet of the dancers
2001.29.1602 Dance: Line of men dancing at a daytime dance, turning after dancing through the circle of women sitting, with //Khuga sitting and "Gao Medicine" followed by two little boys, shows circle in the sand made by the feet of the dancers
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Group of dancers sitting and resting under a tree at the end of a daytime dance
2001.29.1626 Dance: Group of dancers sitting and resting under a tree at the end of a daytime dance
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Group of dancers sitting and resting under a tree at the end of a daytime dance
2001.29.1625 Dance: Group of dancers sitting and resting under a tree at the end of a daytime dance
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the circle of women at a daytime dance, with a woman carrying a baby dancing between !Naishi and Gau (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1615 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the circle of women at a daytime dance, with a woman carrying a baby dancing between !Naishi and Gau (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
"Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30857 "Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30857.1 "Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha