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//Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
//Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.28467
Display Title //Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Cardboard
Dimensions Overall: 12.2238 × 17.145 cm (4 13/16 × 6 3/4 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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//Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28466 //Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28465 //Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi, seen from the top (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28453 //Guashi, seen from the top (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi, seen from the top (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28454 //Guashi, seen from the top (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Close-up of //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28456 Close-up of //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Overview of //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28463 Overview of //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing thong for carrying
2001.29.22405 //Guashi showing thong for carrying
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing thong for carrying
2001.29.22404 //Guashi showing thong for carrying
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing thong for carrying
2001.29.22403 //Guashi showing thong for carrying
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Music": "/Gao Music" tuning his //guashi, sitting with !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30746 "Music": "/Gao Music" tuning his //guashi, sitting with !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Guashi showing how the strings are wound around the sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28460 //Guashi showing how the strings are wound around the sticks (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy