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//Guashi showing place where strings are inserted in grooves (print is a cropped image)
//Guashi showing place where strings are inserted in grooves (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.28461
Display Title //Guashi showing place where strings are inserted in grooves (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: 13.97 × 20.1613 cm (5 1/2 × 7 15/16 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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//Guashi showing place where strings are inserted in grooves
2001.29.22399 //Guashi showing place where strings are inserted in grooves
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing the sticks to which strings are tied (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28462 //Guashi showing the sticks to which strings are tied (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing how the strings are wound around the sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28460 //Guashi showing how the strings are wound around the sticks (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, showing thumbs on strings (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28473 "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, showing thumbs on strings (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31186 [No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29935 [No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29936 [No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29935.1 [No folder title]: !U tuning a //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !U tuning the //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30092 [No folder title]: !U tuning the //guashi, tightening the strings, with Norna sitting on her lap (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30857.1 "Living places, shelters": People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
//Guashi showing how sounding board is affixed to main body of instrument (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28464 //Guashi showing how sounding board is affixed to main body of instrument (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
//Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28465 //Guashi showing thong for carrying (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy