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"Possessions": !Ungka hanging her bag of possessions in a tree (print is a cropped image)
"Possessions": !Ungka hanging her bag of possessions in a tree (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30840
Display Title "Possessions": !Ungka hanging her bag of possessions in a tree (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "211-11 / A woman hangs her possessions in a tree"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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