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Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.28833
Display Title Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on back of board "L. K. Marshall/ A !Kung woman with her ostrich egg shells/ which she has filled at the water hole./ It is usual for a woman to carry as/ many as this to and from the water/ hole or on a journey."
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 19.3675 cm (6 1/2 × 7 5/8 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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[No folder title]: Woman gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31164 [No folder title]: Woman gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31161 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
2001.29.22952 Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
Nama Pan
Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28835 Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
2001.29.22951 Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
Nama Pan
Woman gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
2001.29.22950 Woman gathering her filled ostrich egg shells
Nama Pan
Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28834 Woman, standing, gathering her filled ostrich egg shells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"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
N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
2001.29.17517 N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31163 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
2001.29.1856 Groups: Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music") lying on a kaross in her dwelling place without a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging on a bush and ostrich eggshells and veldkos on the ground
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
2001.29.16373 /Ti!kay sitting with a woman pounding with a mortar and pestle, with a boy sitting in a shelter skerm behind them, animal skin hanging in the opening of the skerm, ostrich eggshells and a melon on the ground near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy