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"Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
"Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Object Number 2001.29.30524.1
Display Title "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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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"Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
2001.29.30524 "Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
Gautscha
Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25756 Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30535 "Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Water": Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30893 "Water": Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back
2001.29.14212 Man and boy returning to the werft from a waterhole, showing the use of a carrying stick, shoulder bags made from animal stomachs, and a man's breech-clout seen from the back
Gautscha
Digging for roots: "Gao Medicine" cracking mangetti nuts on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30203 Digging for roots: "Gao Medicine" cracking mangetti nuts on a rock with a stick and a man with a bow sitting next to him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts
2001.29.735.2 [No folder title]: Boys gathering mangetti nuts
Mangetti Forest
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking mangetti nuts (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
2001.29.25882.1 /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking mangetti nuts (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Two bags made from animal stomachs filled with water, hanging on a bush
2001.29.2484 Two bags made from animal stomachs filled with water, hanging on a bush
Nyae Nyae Conservancy