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"Living places, shelters": Abandoned skerms, distant view (print is a cropped image)
"Living places, shelters": Abandoned skerms, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30868
Display Title "Living places, shelters": Abandoned skerms, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "from c/t - 7C-218"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Gau /U Pan
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": 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": "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
"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
"Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30864 "Living places, shelters": Group of people sitting and a child standing in a skerm, with a water bag made from an animal stomach hanging in the entrance (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
"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": 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": /Naoka, wife of /Ti!kay, building a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30852 "Living places, shelters": /Naoka, wife of /Ti!kay, building a skerm (print is a cropped image)
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": "Gao Medicine" sitting in front of a partially constructed skerm with his family members, including /Naoka (his first wife) and ≠Toma, Di!ai is working on the skerm behind them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30866 "Living places, shelters": "Gao Medicine" sitting in front of a partially constructed skerm with his family members, including /Naoka (his first wife) and ≠Toma, Di!ai is working on the skerm behind them (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": 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