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"Old Gau" in profile holding his spear, with axe stuck in the waistband of his breech cloth
"Old Gau" in profile holding his spear, with axe stuck in the waistband of his breech cloth
Object Number 2001.29.28367
Display Title "Old Gau" in profile holding his spear, with axe stuck in the waistband of his breech cloth
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.1 × 14.4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 11/16 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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Groups: Men sitting with "Old Gau" at his dwelling place, including "Old ≠Toma," ≠Gao, "Old /Gaishay," and /Qui (Gau's son-in-law); Gau cracking nuts with a fire paddle and ≠Gao pounding something with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.1880 Groups: Men sitting with "Old Gau" at his dwelling place, including "Old ≠Toma," ≠Gao, "Old /Gaishay," and /Qui (Gau's son-in-law); Gau cracking nuts with a fire paddle and ≠Gao pounding something with a mortar and pestle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
2001.29.25103 Top: Man and boy returning to werft from a waterhole, skerms in the background; bottom: "Gao Helmet" hammering and shaping an assegai blade with a piece of metal, with his second wife, //Kushay, sitting beside him, and "Old ≠Toma" behind him
Gautscha
Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.702 Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.701 Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.703 Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay (son of "Old Gau"), with his foot bandaged, /Gao (son of "Old Gau") wearing a shirt, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13597 Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.661.1 "Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.13596 Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.662 "Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
"Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.660 "Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
"Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
2001.29.661 "Paintings, drawing and modelling": Four boys painting with Western materials, including /Gishay ("Old Gau's" son), with his foot bandaged, and Tsamgao (≠Toma's son), wearing a feather in his hair
Gautscha
Arrows: "Old Gau" wearing yellow beads, holding arrows, with his quiver on the ground next to him
2001.29.2792 Arrows: "Old Gau" wearing yellow beads, holding arrows, with his quiver on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy