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"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30846.1
Display Title "Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 10 / No. 2 / 2 1/2" wide / x 3 1/8" deep / 8627/24 / Africa. Dec. 1960 / 21-6"; 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: 17.78 × 12.3825 cm (7 × 4 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
"Sleep": !Ghia sleeping (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30846 "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
[No folder title]: ≠Toma carrying meat in his hunting bag on a stick (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30460 [No folder title]: ≠Toma carrying meat in his hunting bag on a stick (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot
2001.29.25690.2 Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot
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
"Ornaments & beads": Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30792.1 "Ornaments & beads": Woman from /Ti!kay's group sitting (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30025.1 "Khuan//a (52) wi of Gau (47), Band 2": Khuan//a (Gau's second wife) sitting on the ground with her chin in her hand and holding an unidentified child against her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!Ghia sleeping, with a child sleeping next to her
2001.29.13887 !Ghia sleeping, with a child sleeping next to her
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband, //Ao
2001.29.29913 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband, //Ao
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Old ≠Toma" cutting a quarter of meat, his share in a distribution of meat, with other people sitting near him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30728 "Meat sharing": "Old ≠Toma" cutting a quarter of meat, his share in a distribution of meat, with other people sitting near him (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30729 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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 "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