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Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire (print is a cropped image)
Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire (print is a cropped image)
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
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire
2001.29.23272 Dam, ≠Gisa, and their youngest child cooking veldkos in a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, cooking veldkos in their fire
2001.29.1657 Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, cooking veldkos in their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: ≠Gisa holding her baby, sitting with Dam by their fire, with two pieces of veldkos cooking on it
2001.29.2985 Food, Cooking: ≠Gisa holding her baby, sitting with Dam by their fire, with two pieces of veldkos cooking on it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, sitting and cooking veldkos in their fire
2001.29.1648 Food, Cooking: Dam and his wife, ≠Gisa, sitting and cooking veldkos in their fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934.2 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31186 [No folder title]: Portrait of ≠Gisa (daughter of /Gasa and wife of Dam) showing her ornaments and strings of ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934.1 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30133 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire
2001.29.14408 Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire
Gautscha
Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29067 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28860 Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy