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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
Materials
Print, black and white
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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