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Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
"Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30708.1
Display Title "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "!Kung girl making cat's cradle / 140/2"; 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: 20.32 × 15.24 cm (8 × 6 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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Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30708 "Cats cradle": Girl holding a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Girl making a "cat's cradle"
2001.29.14442 Girl making a "cat's cradle"
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.564 "Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30707.2 "Cats cradle": N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle"
2001.29.297 N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle"
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.564.1 "Cats cradle": Two girls sitting in front of a skerm, one is making a "cat's cradle" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Children, Toys: ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka, wife of "/Gao Music") making a "cat's cradle," sitting in front of a skerm with ≠Gisa
2001.29.1453 Children, Toys: ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka, wife of "/Gao Music") making a "cat's cradle," sitting in front of a skerm with ≠Gisa
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Children, Toys: ≠Nisa (daughter of "/Gao Medicine" and /Naoka, wife of "/Gao Music") making a "cat's cradle," sitting in front of a skerm with ≠Gisa and an unidentified girl
2001.29.1452 Children, Toys: ≠Nisa (daughter of "/Gao Medicine" and /Naoka, wife of "/Gao Music") making a "cat's cradle," sitting in front of a skerm with ≠Gisa and an unidentified girl
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Two boys making a "cat's cradle" in front of the expedition truck (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31148 [No folder title]: Two boys making a "cat's cradle" in front of the expedition truck (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle"
2001.29.25902 N≠isa wearing many hair ornaments, making a "cat's cradle"
Gautscha