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"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.562.2
Display Title "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in on photograph (verso): "!Kung Bushmen / One little girl looks for lice / in the hair of another. A common practice / Any one may delouse anyone else - no taboos. / the lice are eaten / 13p / 18 / 0 / B1617/18-9/110 / Published in Natural History June July 1958 p 307 / 58 / 42 1/2%+ / #20-9 / 9-28 / 20-9"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University", "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "1741"
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: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
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"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562.3 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
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"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562.1 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
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Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.32701 Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
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Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child
2001.29.13878 Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child
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Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (copy negative)
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"Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30710.1 "Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30712.1 "Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30710 "Grooming & haircuts": //Khuana looking for lice on her child's head, N!ai looking for lice in the child's beads, and /Gaishay (son of Gao and Di!ai) examining a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30712 "Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha