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"Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
"Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30791.1
Display Title "Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / A !Kung woman named //Kushay / 204/5 / 204-5"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: 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
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 15.24 cm (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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"Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30791 "Ornaments & beads": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Nursing": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") sitting, with "Little ≠Gao" lying on her leg nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31278 "Nursing": //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") sitting, with "Little ≠Gao" lying on her leg nursing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm
2001.29.14506 //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel", Band 1) leaning her head on her arm
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
"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
"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)
2001.29.30765.1 "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
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31318.1 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29929 "//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame
2001.29.14802 //Kushay (wife of "/Qui Navel") standing, with "Little ≠Gao" holding on to her back, !Ungka sitting on the ground using her digging stick to dig a hole for a branch of a skerm frame
Gautscha
[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29927 [No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) sitting and playing the //guashi with her child seated on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Kushay (daughter of /Qui and /Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and his second wife) and another child standing next to a tree, with a net and rattles hanging from the tree
2001.29.25865 //Kushay (daughter of /Qui and /Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and his second wife) and another child standing next to a tree, with a net and rattles hanging from the tree
Gautscha
/Qui (brother of "Gao Helmet," "/Qui Navel," and "Old ≠Toma" sitting in back row; /Gasa, unidentified woman (possibly !U's mother Naoka), Khuan//a (wife of Gau) with Qui (her son), and !Naishi (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) sitting in front row
2001.29.23752 /Qui (brother of "Gao Helmet," "/Qui Navel," and "Old ≠Toma" sitting in back row; /Gasa, unidentified woman (possibly !U's mother Naoka), Khuan//a (wife of Gau) with Qui (her son), and !Naishi (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) sitting in front row
Gautscha