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!U holding a tortoise shell (print is a cropped image)
!U holding a tortoise shell (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.28725
Display Title !U holding a tortoise shell (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 Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 16.51 cm (8 × 6 1/2 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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!U holding a tortoise shell
2001.29.22791 !U holding a tortoise shell
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29075 Close-up of tortoise shell ornaments and apron decorated with hanging ornaments worn by !Ghia (second wife of "Old ≠Gao" from Band 10) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Child drinking from an ostrich eggshell and a woman (likely /Naoka, U!'s mother) sitting beside a fire with a pot and bones before her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30432 [No folder title]: Child drinking from an ostrich eggshell and a woman (likely /Naoka, U!'s mother) sitting beside a fire with a pot and bones before her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: !Ungka standing and holding a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31131 [No folder title]: !Ungka standing and holding a digging stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai, !U and ≠Toma sitting, and Norna and Debe playing with a broken bowl (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31424 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai, !U and ≠Toma sitting, and Norna and Debe playing with a broken bowl (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai, !U and ≠Toma sitting, and Norna and Debe playing with a broken bowl (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31425 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Di!ai, !U and ≠Toma sitting, and Norna and Debe playing with a broken bowl (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
/Naoka (!U's mother) stirring the contents of a pot with a stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28742 /Naoka (!U's mother) stirring the contents of a pot with a stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Portrait of a visiting girl with her head shaved, showing ostrich eggshell bead necklace (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28492 Portrait of a visiting girl with her head shaved, showing ostrich eggshell bead necklace (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30786 "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Band 1, Old N/aoka 413 Mo. of !U, etc.": Old N/aoka, mother of !U, sitting by a fire, her knee over a mortar (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30034 "Band 1, Old N/aoka 413 Mo. of !U, etc.": Old N/aoka, mother of !U, sitting by a fire, her knee over a mortar (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: !Ungka Norna drinking from an ostrich eggshell, sitting beside !U, and Di!ai in the foreground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31121 [No folder title]: !Ungka Norna drinking from an ostrich eggshell, sitting beside !U, and Di!ai in the foreground (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy