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Object Number
2001.29.29055
Display Title
Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Handwritten in pencil on paperboard (verso): A !Kung Bushman man, his wife and child. / They are cooking their evening meal, a root / dug by the woman. Note the wooden paddle for / scraping the hot ashes. Note the man's hair cut. / (Dam, ≠Gisa and one of their two children)
Department
Photographic
Date
1955
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dimensions
Overall: 16.3513 × 20.1613 cm (6 7/16 × 7 15/16 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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