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Object Number
2001.29.30872
Display Title
"Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / A !Kung man smokes. The !Kung love tobacco. / We gave presents of tobacco often. The !Kung / of the interior of the Nyae Nyae region go to / Bechuanaland occasionally to trade hides / and ostrich egg shell beads with the Tswana / for tobacco. The pipe is / made of soapstone. / 62/4 / 62-4"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[crossed out: 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: 20.955 × 14.2875 cm (8 1/4 × 5 5/8 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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