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"Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
"Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30833
Display Title "Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 17.78 × 20.32 cm (7 × 8 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
"Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30833.2 "Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up
2001.29.14236 Khwo//o-/Gasa and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) sitting in front of a skerm, close-up
Gautscha
"Groups: women & children": Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking, her son /Gaishay playing a //guashi, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29960 "Groups: women & children": Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking, her son /Gaishay playing a //guashi, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) playing a //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25755 Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31218 "Children in groups": Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making cord, sitting with /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and other people in front of a skerm
2001.29.3158 Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making cord, sitting with /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) and other people in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa)
2001.29.14209 Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife), her son /Gaishay, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa)
Gautscha
Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking, her son /Gaishay playing a //guashi, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) playing a //guashi
2001.29.14208 Group of people sitting around a fire, including /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking, her son /Gaishay playing a //guashi, "≠Gao Lame," and Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) playing a //guashi
Gautscha
Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
2001.29.2119 Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30833.1 "Sewing": Khwo//o-/Gasa sitting in front of a skerm, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" and ≠Gao working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3, son of /Gasa and brother of Gau), sitting with /Goishay (≠Gao's wife), "/Gao Music" (brother of /Goishay) playing the //guashi, ≠Toma (≠Gao and /Goishay's son), Dam (husband of ≠Gisa), Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goisha) and /Naoka (wife of "/Gao Medicine")
2001.29.14870 "/Qui Navel" and ≠Gao working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3, son of /Gasa and brother of Gau), sitting with /Goishay (≠Gao's wife), "/Gao Music" (brother of /Goishay) playing the //guashi, ≠Toma (≠Gao and /Goishay's son), Dam (husband of ≠Gisa), Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goisha) and /Naoka (wife of "/Gao Medicine")
Gautscha
"/Qui Navel" and ≠Gao working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3, son of /Gasa and brother of Gau), sitting with /Goishay (≠Gao's wife), "/Gao Music" (brother of /Goishay) playing the //guashi, ≠Toma (≠Gao and /Goishay's son), Dam (husband of ≠Gisa), Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goisha) and /Naoka (wife of "/Gao Medicine")
2001.29.14869 "/Qui Navel" and ≠Gao working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3, son of /Gasa and brother of Gau), sitting with /Goishay (≠Gao's wife), "/Gao Music" (brother of /Goishay) playing the //guashi, ≠Toma (≠Gao and /Goishay's son), Dam (husband of ≠Gisa), Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goisha) and /Naoka (wife of "/Gao Medicine")
Gautscha