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Image Not Available for "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
"Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30785
Display Title "Ostrich egg shell": Three ostrich eggshells decorated with scratched designs, with stoppers (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
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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Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells
2001.29.23110 Three ostrich eggshells ornamented with little scratched designs, with stoppers; a person's hand holding one of the shells
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Three ostrich eggshells decoated with scratched designs, with stoppers
2001.29.23109 Three ostrich eggshells decoated with scratched designs, with stoppers
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.3181 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
2001.29.2230 ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling ostrich egg shells with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers and an Ovambo pot on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
2001.29.3182 Water: ≠Gao (leader of Band 10) filling an Ovambo pot with water at a waterhole, with five ostrich egg shells with stoppers on the ground next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28833 Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for "≠Toma, Envelope 2 (of 4)": ≠Toma lining a carrying net with a small kaross to pack it with rattles, ostrich eggshells, etc. (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30049 "≠Toma, Envelope 2 (of 4)": ≠Toma lining a carrying net with a small kaross to pack it with rattles, ostrich eggshells, etc. (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Possessions: Ostrich egg shells with stoppers; three of them showing decoration on the shells
2001.29.5990 Possessions: Ostrich egg shells with stoppers; three of them showing decoration on the shells
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Inside of a skerm, showing separate piles of ostrich eggshells, tsama melons, and bean pods (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26533 Inside of a skerm, showing separate piles of ostrich eggshells, tsama melons, and bean pods (print is a cropped image)
Chukudu Kraal
Image Not Available for "Ostrich egg shell bead making": Close-up of Di!ai (Xama's daughter) smoothing strung ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30788 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": Close-up of Di!ai (Xama's daughter) smoothing strung ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for [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