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//Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head, seen from the front (print is a cropped image)
//Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head, seen from the front (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.28545
Display Title //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head, seen from the front (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
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: 20.1613 × 14.605 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/4 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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//Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head, seen from the front
2001.29.22555 //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head, seen from the front
Nama Pan
Profile of //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head
2001.29.22553 Profile of //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head
Nama Pan
Profile of //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head
2001.29.22554 Profile of //Kushay squatting with a kerchief around her head
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31151 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("/Qui Navel's" wife) making a "cat's cradle" as she sits in front of the expedition truck's tire with unidentified children around her; Di!ai is sitting to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Grooming & haircuts": //Kushay delousing her mother, Khwo//o (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30718 "Grooming & haircuts": //Kushay delousing her mother, Khwo//o (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
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
[No folder title]: Tsamgao, /Gunda, "≠Gao Lame" (headman of Band 1), unidentified man, ≠Gao (son of Gau), Gau (husband of Be and Khuan//a), and !Naishi (with headband) sitting in the back row; and ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) with her baby, unidentified girl, unidentified woman (possibly from / /Ti!kay's group), unidentified child, "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) and //Kushay (behind "Little ≠Gao") sitting in the front (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29273 [No folder title]: Tsamgao, /Gunda, "≠Gao Lame" (headman of Band 1), unidentified man, ≠Gao (son of Gau), Gau (husband of Be and Khuan//a), and !Naishi (with headband) sitting in the back row; and ≠Nisa (wife of //Ao) with her baby, unidentified girl, unidentified woman (possibly from / /Ti!kay's group), unidentified child, "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) and //Kushay (behind "Little ≠Gao") sitting in the front (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western 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)
2001.29.28485 Portrait of N≠isa wearing ostrich eggshell beads around her neck, headband of Western 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
Group of Ju/'hoansi seated around a fire in the foreground; //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) standing with her child on her shoulders in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25548 Group of Ju/'hoansi seated around a fire in the foreground; //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) standing with her child on her shoulders in the background (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30791.1 "Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay delousing another person's head (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28410 //Kushay delousing another person's head (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Di!ai, her mother, /Naoka, and her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31076 [No folder title]: Di!ai, her mother, /Naoka, and her two sons, Debe and /Gaishay, seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan