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"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (print is a cropped image)
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30509.1
Display Title "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations 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: 11.43 × 15.875 cm (4 1/2 × 6 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 dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30509 "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
Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man
2001.29.14354 Men dancing, including "/Gao Medicine" whose hands are being held behind him by another man
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": /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and boys dancing, with a group of women singing behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30498.1 "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": 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
"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": 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
"Daytime dance at Gautscha": Group of people dancing, including a woman dancing with her baby (right) and //Ao (center) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30502 "Daytime dance at Gautscha": Group of people dancing, including a woman dancing with her baby (right) and //Ao (center) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dance: Line of men dancing counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi)
2001.29.1617 Dance: Line of men dancing counter-clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) (half of stereo 2001.29.5752)
2001.29.1619 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around a group of women sitting at a daytime dance, with "/Gao Music" being held by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of !Naishi) (half of stereo 2001.29.5752)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Medicine" holding a stick, dancing in a daytime dance, with another man behind him
2001.29.17486 "/Gao Medicine" holding a stick, dancing in a daytime dance, with another man behind him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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