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"Grooming & haircuts": "Little N!ai" delousing a child (print is a cropped image)
"Grooming & haircuts": "Little N!ai" delousing a child (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30711
Display Title "Grooming & haircuts": "Little N!ai" delousing a child (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / !Nai delouses her small (big) cousin. / 55/11 / 55-6 [11]"; 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: 15.5575 × 20.6375 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/8 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"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
"Grooming & haircuts": Girls and women sitting, one delousing another (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30716 "Grooming & haircuts": Girls and women sitting, one delousing another (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"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)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562.2 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) sitting and holding her daughter in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30714 "Grooming & haircuts": ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) sitting and holding her daughter in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": "≠Gao Lame" delousing another boy and Tsamgao lying on the ground next to them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30715 "Grooming & haircuts": "≠Gao Lame" delousing another boy and Tsamgao lying on the ground next to them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Naoka's son) delousing "≠Gao Lame," with /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") watching, ≠Toma (son of Gau) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30713 "Grooming & haircuts": /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine" and Naoka's son) delousing "≠Gao Lame," with /Gishay (son of "Old Gau") watching, ≠Toma (son of Gau) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": //Kushay delousing her mother, Khwo//o (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30718 "Grooming & haircuts": //Kushay delousing her mother, Khwo//o (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25754 "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (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
"Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30739 "Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha