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[No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30820.1
Display Title [No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 21-8 / Religion / SS / 22 / [crossed out: S/S] / 100 3/4%"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University" and "2400"
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 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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
Group of people participating in the choa ceremony
2001.29.25579 Group of people participating in the choa ceremony
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30903 [No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30820 [No folder title]: Group of people participating in the choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people participating in a choa ceremony
2001.29.13889 Group of people participating in a choa ceremony
Gautscha
Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31885.1 Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31885 Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31885.2 Group of people participating in a choa ceremony (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30391.2 [No folder title]: Man stretching out a skin by pegging it to the ground (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" preparing a piece of skin, other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30427.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" preparing a piece of skin, other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.3 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25531 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30818.1 [No folder title]: /Naoka (first wife of /Ti!kay) performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau (wife of Tsamgao) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha