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Image Not Available for "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)
"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)
Image Not Available for "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)
Object Number 2001.29.30739
Display Title "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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "A !Kung girl named !Nai playing //guashi. / 44/5"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: 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: 20.955 × 13.335 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 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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Image Not Available for "N!ai in groups": "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)
2001.29.31196 "N!ai in groups": "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
"Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her
2001.29.14035 "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "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)
2001.29.30111 [No folder title]: "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
Image Not Available for "N!ai in groups": N!ai playing a //guashi, with a large group sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31197 "N!ai in groups": N!ai playing a //guashi, with a large group sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft
(print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
2001.29.25873.1 Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for //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)
2001.29.25661 //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
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29927 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
2001.29.25871 Khuan//a (daughter of !Naishi, headman of Band 5, and //Khuga) sitting in front of a skerm, playing a //guashi
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29921 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31217 "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha