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Object Number
2001.29.28886
Display Title
"Gao Medicine" beginning to throw an assegai (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department
Photographic
Date
1955
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dimensions
Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 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]: "Gao Medicine" beginning to throw an assegai (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748780/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" beginning to throw an assegai (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748781/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine" throwing an assegai (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748775/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: "Gao Medicine", seated, "Little ≠Gao", /Gaishay (Di!ai's and "Gao Medicine's" son), and other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748638/postagestamp)
!["Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": "Gao Medicine" playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game) with a group of men and boys, close-up (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/743700/postagestamp)
