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Object Number 2001.29.30778
Display Title "Oracle disk": Group of people sitting (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Oracle Disks / 55 Rolliflex negative 8"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Groups: women & children": Group of women sitting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29963 "Groups: women & children": Group of women sitting (print is a cropped image)
Botswana
"Groups: women & children": Group of men sitting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29965 "Groups: women & children": Group of men sitting (print is a cropped image)
Botswana
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771.1 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30774 "Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30774.1 "Oracle disk": Man throwing oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771.2 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771.3 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30771 "Oracle disk": Group of people throwing and reading oracle disks, including "Gao Hunchback" and ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Tsi gathering: Trucks in the distance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30244 Tsi gathering: Trucks in the distance (print is a cropped image)
Botswana
Berry picking: Grewia berries, with a pocket knife for scale (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30235 Berry picking: Grewia berries, with a pocket knife for scale (print is a cropped image)
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
"Oracle disk": Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30772 "Oracle disk": Man sitting and contemplating oracle disks (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30775 "Oracle disk": Man reading oracle disks, and a group of men sitting and watching him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha