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Close-up of bead accessory hanging from tuft of hair of a visiting girl (print is a cropped image; image is flipped)
Close-up of bead accessory hanging from tuft of hair of a visiting girl (print is a cropped image; image is flipped)
Object Number 2001.29.28493
Display Title Close-up of bead accessory hanging from tuft of hair of a visiting girl (print is a cropped image; image is flipped)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Handwritten in pencil on paperboard (verso): L.K. Marshall / A !Kung girl, the same girl as is / 55-104P-23
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: 20.1613 × 13.97 cm (7 15/16 × 5 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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Close-up of bead accessory hanging from tuft of hair of a visiting girl
2001.29.22478 Close-up of bead accessory hanging from tuft of hair of a visiting girl
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
Back of N!ai's head showing beads and other hair accessories (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28483 Back of N!ai's head showing beads and other hair accessories (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Profile portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of European beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28487 Profile portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of European beads on her head, and a long band made of a tsi nut and beads hanging on the right side of her face (print is a cropped image)
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
Close-up of !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) playing a musical bow (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29088 Close-up of !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) playing a musical bow (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Band 1, Lame ≠Gao (6)": "Visiting girl" shaving "Lame /Gao's" head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30037 "Band 1, Lame ≠Gao (6)": "Visiting girl" shaving "Lame /Gao's" head (print is a cropped image)
/Gam
[No folder title]: ≠Nisa, an unidentified, visiting girl, N!ai, and N!aba all with wreaths of blossoms around their heads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31138 [No folder title]: ≠Nisa, an unidentified, visiting girl, N!ai, and N!aba all with wreaths of blossoms around their heads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Girls walking in a line including an unidentified, visiting girl in the front, another unidentified girl, !Ungka's cousin, and several younger girls (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28773 Girls walking in a line including an unidentified, visiting girl in the front, another unidentified girl, !Ungka's cousin, and several younger girls (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31343 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Visiting girl" and a younger girl standing, with a cloth wrapped around herself as a garment (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29098 "Visiting girl" and a younger girl standing, with a cloth wrapped around herself as a garment (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy