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"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30856.1
Display Title "Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "84-9 / A hot weather skerm / gives shade; is open to the breeze / Not a typical, usual form / 84-9 / rather an individual's ingenious / device"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for publication / copy no. / L. Marshall"
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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"Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30856 "Living places, shelters": Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather
2001.29.14207 Bo (brother of /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine") sitting with his children in a skerm built for shade in hot weather
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
"Living places, shelters": People looking for beads in the ashes from "Old ≠Toma's" burned skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30859.1 "Living places, shelters": People looking for beads in the ashes from "Old ≠Toma's" burned skerm (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 "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
Boy playing a musical bow, sitting inside a skerm constructed for hot weather with another child, a boy lying down between them
2001.29.15089 Boy playing a musical bow, sitting inside a skerm constructed for hot weather with another child, a boy lying down between them
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with two other boys in front of a skerm constructed for hot weather
2001.29.15085 Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with two other boys in front of a skerm constructed for hot weather
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with two other boys in the entrance of a skerm built for hot weather
2001.29.15082 Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with two other boys in the entrance of a skerm built for hot weather
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with another boy in front of a skerm constructed for hot weather
2001.29.15084 Boy playing a musical bow, sitting with another boy in front of a skerm constructed for hot weather
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Skerm constructed for hot weather
2001.29.15364 Skerm constructed for hot weather
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting in front of the skerm of Gau of Band 2, including "Old /Gasa," //Khuga (wife of /Naishi), a woman stringing beads, "Little /Qui," and "Old Gau" from Band 1 (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30863 "Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting in front of the skerm of Gau of Band 2, including "Old /Gasa," //Khuga (wife of /Naishi), a woman stringing beads, "Little /Qui," and "Old Gau" from Band 1 (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Living places, shelters": Tsamgao and Bau sitting in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30854 "Living places, shelters": Tsamgao and Bau sitting in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha