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Object Number
2001.29.30774
Display Title
"Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Typed on label adhered to photograph (verso): "#42-8 - From Laurence K. Marshall / Bechuanaland / Kalahari Bushmen / A group watching a man throw the oracle disks."; stamped on photograph (verso): "Rec'd Jan 18 1961" and Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."; written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Five leather disks are tossed onto a / kaross and from the position in which / they lie in relation to each other / men read the "news". They might ask / the disk what was happening to absent / friends or they might ask for advice / in huntin, in what direction to start / for instance / or they / might ask / whether or / not they would / have good / luck in their hunting"
Department
Photographic
Date
1952-1953
Artist
Anneliese Scherz
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/
Gautscha
Dimensions
Overall: 19.3675 × 19.05 cm (7 5/8 × 7 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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