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"Music": Oukwane seated, playing a bow (print is a cropped image)
"Music": Oukwane seated, playing a bow (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30750
Display Title "Music": Oukwane seated, playing a bow (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Typed on label adhered to photograph (verso): ""Ukwane Plays his mood song" / /Gwi Bushman of Botswana, in Kalahari Desert / Photo owned by and must be credited to: / Laurence K. Marshall / (4 Bryant St. Cambridge, Mass) / purchased one-time N.Am rights only"; written on photograph (verso): "55-65P-10 / XIV / p 697 / #181"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Ai Ha !O Pan
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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