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[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" removing a peg from a stretched skin with his adze (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" removing a peg from a stretched skin with his adze (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.29299
Display Title [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" removing a peg from a stretched skin with his adze (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "print by / A. Scherz / Exp. VI / 96/1"
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dimensions Overall: 9.525 × 12.065 cm (3 3/4 × 4 3/4 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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"/Gao Music" removing a peg from a stretched skin with his adze
2001.29.16098 "/Gao Music" removing a peg from a stretched skin with his adze
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" standing with his second wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) and his son /Qui (by his first wife, also named ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30168 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" standing with his second wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) and his son /Qui (by his first wife, also named ≠Nisa, sister of "Gao Medicine") (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma holding an adze, working on a stretched animal skin with "/Gao Music"
2001.29.16099 ≠Toma holding an adze, working on a stretched animal skin with "/Gao Music"
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
2001.29.16100 ≠Toma sharpening his knife, sitting with "/Gao Music" on a stretched animal skin they have been scraping, with /Ti!kay squatting near them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" lying beside his fire keeping his belongings nearby (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31118 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" lying beside his fire keeping his belongings nearby (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" shredding sinew, sitting with his wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30196 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" shredding sinew, sitting with his wife ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine" and /Naoka) (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30059 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.3 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.2 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30399 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting and applying poison to arrows (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy