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Object Number 2001.29.30787
Display Title "Ostrich egg shell bead making": "Old /Gam" making ostrich eggshell beads, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / The making of ostrich egg shell beads. / A hole is drilled in a fragment; the fragments are strung tightly on a thong / and rubbed with a stone till they / are uniform round disks. 16 cm / 101/2 / 101-2 [crossed out: ?]"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 16.8275 × 15.24 cm (6 5/8 × 6 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
"Old /Gam" making ostrich eggshell beads, close-up
2001.29.14246 "Old /Gam" making ostrich eggshell beads, close-up
Gautscha
"Old /Gam" making ostrich eggshell beads
2001.29.25776 "Old /Gam" making ostrich eggshell beads
Gautscha
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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
"Old /Gam" sitting, making ostrich eggshell beads
2001.29.2464 "Old /Gam" sitting, making ostrich eggshell beads
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gam wearing a headdress of Western beads, making a bead by drilling a hole in a broken piece of ostrich eggshell
2001.29.17693 /Gam wearing a headdress of Western beads, making a bead by drilling a hole in a broken piece of ostrich eggshell
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old /Gam" drilling holes in pieces of ostrich eggshell to make beads
2001.29.14250 "Old /Gam" drilling holes in pieces of ostrich eggshell to make beads
Gautscha
"Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30783 "Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789.2 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30789.1 "Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30784 "Ostrich egg shell": Baby (child of ≠Gao, leader of Band 10, and Bau, his first wife) sitting next to an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gam making a bead by drilling a hole in a broken piece of ostrich eggshell
2001.29.17691 /Gam making a bead by drilling a hole in a broken piece of ostrich eggshell
Nyae Nyae Conservancy