Skip to main content
"Ornaments": Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
"Ornaments": Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30780
Display Title "Ornaments": Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "!Kung Bushmen / One woman fixes the / ear ring of another / 39% / 19 p / R / Published in Natural History June July 1958 p. 306 / 67 / #26-8"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University" and "1741"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
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

Important Note about Historical Language

Collections records may contain language, reflecting past collecting practices and methods of analysis, that is no longer acceptable. The Peabody Museum is committed to addressing the problem of offensive and discriminatory language present in its database. Our museum staff are continually updating these records, adding to and improving content. We welcome your feedback and any questions or concerns you may want to share. Please email us with your comments.

PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.32702 Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30102 [No folder title]: Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring
2001.29.13901 Woman's hands fixing another woman's earring
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Sewing": //Kushay, wife of /Qui, sewing beads on a leather bag (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30832 "Sewing": //Kushay, wife of /Qui, sewing beads on a leather bag (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.562.2 "Grooming & haircuts": Girl looking for lice in the hair of a smaller child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his ostrich eggshell with water (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31225.1 "Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30530.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": /Gunda (N!ai's husband) steadies a child while the child drinks from an ostrich eggshell, and a woman sitting next to them also drinking from a shell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30536.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": "Old /Gaishay" of Band 4 filling his //’ai [ostrich eggshell water container], (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29922 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha