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Object Number 2001.29.30774.1
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 written in pencil on photograph (verso): "!Kung oracle disks. The men (any men) / consult them, to find out what has happened / or may happen. There are five leather / disks. The man who consults them / assigns names of person to them, rolls, and / interprets what he sees. Or he assigns / animals to them and reads where / and when to hunt. / 42-8"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "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
Dimensions Overall: 11.7475 × 15.875 cm (4 5/8 × 6 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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"Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30774 "Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
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"Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30775 "Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, with a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30775.1 "Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, with a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30777.1 "Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks
2001.29.293 Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771.1 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Men practicing oracle disc divination, with Lorna Marshall taking notes (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.292.2 "Oracle disk": Men practicing oracle disc divination, with Lorna Marshall taking notes (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Oracle Disk: Man pointing to an oracle disk, with other people watching him
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Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771.2 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Men practicing oracle disc divination, with Lorna Marshall taking notes
2001.29.292.1 "Oracle disk": Men practicing oracle disc divination, with Lorna Marshall taking notes
Gautscha
Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25644 Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha