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"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)
"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)
Object Number 2001.29.30857
Display Title "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)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "# 1 / 150 screen / 2 1/2" wide x / approx. 2 5/8" deep / Published in / Africa July 1961 / 8627/24 / 98-11"; 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: 17.78 × 12.065 cm (7 × 4 3/4 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": 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 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)
2001.29.30857.2 "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]: 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)
2001.29.30067 [No folder title]: 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
People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view
2001.29.14221 People returning to the werft with wood, showing the central tree and the cleared places where dances take place, distant view
Gautscha
"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)
2001.29.30856.1 "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
"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
Four children rolling on the ground in a cleared area where dances take place
2001.29.14182 Four children rolling on the ground in a cleared area where dances take place
Gautscha
"Boys' play": Four children rolling on the ground in a cleared area where dances take place (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31415 "Boys' play": Four children rolling on the ground in a cleared area where dances take place (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
"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)
2001.29.30862 "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": Abandoned skerms, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30868 "Living places, shelters": Abandoned skerms, distant view (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
"Living places, shelters": "Old ≠Toma," "Old /Gam" and Khuan//a with /Qui sitting in front of Gau's skerm, with a kudu head lying on the ground next to it (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30867 "Living places, shelters": "Old ≠Toma," "Old /Gam" and Khuan//a with /Qui sitting in front of Gau's skerm, with a kudu head lying on the ground next to it (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha