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Image Not Available for "Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
"Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for "Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30899
Display Title "Rite of First Menstruation": Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
2001.29.22988 Woman pounding bone and red powder in her kaross with a stone
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2114 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2116 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2115 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
2001.29.7868 Woman pounding bone meal and red powder which she used to clean her kaross
Gwia
!U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
2001.29.16834 !U pounding bone meal and pigment with a stone on her kaross, with two children sitting next to her, her husband, ≠Toma, scraping a skin in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Media Restricted
 		2001.29.30900 "Rite of First Menstruation": //Kushay (wife of ≠Toma) rubbing her daughter with tsi at the end of the Eland Dance (print is a cropped image)
Gwia
Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
2001.29.16796 Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
2001.29.16798 Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
2001.29.16797 Woman sitting, pounding bone meal in her kaross with a rock
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Short /Qui" pounding an animal skin with his fist to make a kaross
2001.29.16890 "Short /Qui" pounding an animal skin with his fist to make a kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: Woman sitting and using a stone to pound red powder to use on her kaross
2001.29.2117 Red Powder: Woman sitting and using a stone to pound red powder to use on her kaross
Nyae Nyae Conservancy