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"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30846
Display Title "Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
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: 12.7 × 15.24 cm (5 × 6 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
"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30846.1 "Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30846.2 "Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25528.1 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30101 [No folder title]: !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: !Ghia of Band 10 sitting and holding her child, with another woman from Band 9 or 10 sitting next to her with her child (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30905 [No folder title]: !Ghia of Band 10 sitting and holding her child, with another woman from Band 9 or 10 sitting next to her with her child (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25690 Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot (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
[No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918.1 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Old Demi (89) Band 6": "Old Demi," portrait (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29987 "Old Demi (89) Band 6": "Old Demi," portrait (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ornaments & beads": Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30792 "Ornaments & beads": Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ghia sleeping, with a child sleeping next to her
2001.29.13887 !Ghia sleeping, with a child sleeping next to her
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha