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"Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
"Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30712.1
Display Title "Grooming & haircuts": Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / A boy delouses someone (a man) / 55/8 / 55-8"; 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: 7.9375 × 15.5575 cm (3 1/8 × 6 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 "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": 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": "Little N!ai" delousing a child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30711 "Grooming & haircuts": "Little N!ai" delousing a child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Boy and a man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25707 Boy and a man lying on the ground, the boy looking for lice in the man's hair (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": 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": "≠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
Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy is looking for lice in the man's hair
2001.29.14119 Boy and man lying on the ground, the boy is looking for lice in the man's hair
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": ≠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": 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)
Gautscha