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"Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
"Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30875.1
Display Title "Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / An old woman (Xama) smokes a / pipe / IX-27"; 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: 13.97 × 10.795 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 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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Top: "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe; bottom: Woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross; bottom: woman's ornaments displayed on a kaross
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2001.29.30873 "Smoking": Bau smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30875.2 "Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30875 "Smoking": "Old Xama" smoking a metal tube pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
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Gautscha
"Smoking": ≠Toma smoking a metal pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30870 "Smoking": ≠Toma smoking a metal pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30871 "Smoking": Brother of /Naoka and N!ai (wives of /Ti!kay) smoking a soapstone pipe (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.1 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30869.2 "Smoking": Woman smoking a pipe, with another woman wearing ornaments and upper arm bracelets lying beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of Ju/'hoansi telling stories including "Lame ≠Gao" seen from behind, ≠Gao (Khwo//o's-/Gasa's husband), Gao Medicine, an unidentified person, ≠Toma, !Naishi, "Old Xama" holding a child, "Gao Helmet," "Old Demi" lying down, "Crooked /Qui," Gao (Debe's son, Zuma's husband), ≠Toma (!Naishi's son), and Zuma (Gao's wife) (print is a cropped image)
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Gautscha
Group of people sitting in front of a skerm, telling stories, including Zuma (daughter of "Old Xama," wife of Gao), Xama, Gao (son of Debe, headman of Band 24 in Cho/ana) and /Qui (brother of "Gao Helmet")
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