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"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)
"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)
Object Number 2001.29.30508.1
Display Title "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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: 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: 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": 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 "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
"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
Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance
2001.29.14300 Stage of a dance in which the men are dancing, before the medicine men are in trance
Gautscha
Group of men dancing; medicine men not yet in trance
2001.29.25817 Group of men dancing; medicine men not yet in trance
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
"Daytime Dance at Gautscha 1952, Early in the Dance, approach": Men dancing through a circle of women sitting, with one man's arms outstretched (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31350 "Daytime Dance at Gautscha 1952, Early in the Dance, approach": Men dancing through a circle of women sitting, with one man's arms outstretched (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Woman dancing with a group of men in a circle around a group of women sitting, in an early stage of a dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30506 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Woman dancing with a group of men in a circle around a group of women sitting, in an early stage of a dance (print is a cropped image)
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
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Medicine men in trance, with other medicine men caring for them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30499 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Medicine men in trance, with other medicine men caring for them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30509.1 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (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)
2001.29.30501.1 "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": /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