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"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30535
Display Title "Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on label adhered to photograph (verso): "Marshall / [crossed out: 16] 17 / Chap. 2"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "[crossed out: For restricted use / not for publication / copy no. / L. Marshall]"
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: 17.78 × 21.59 cm (7 × 8 1/2 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": "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": !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": /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
N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29998.1 N!ai with children: "Little N!ai" giving /Gaishay a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536.3 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30535.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": Interior of a skerm, with mangetti nuts, two water bags made from animal stomachs, ostrich egg shells, and grass used for bedding
2001.29.30524.1 "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
"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 "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
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30535.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": Woman filling an ostrich eggshell with water at a waterhole (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707.1 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha