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"Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
"Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31217
Display Title "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations 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: 15.24 × 20.955 cm (6 × 8 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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Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left
2001.29.14143 Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left
Gautscha
Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25722 Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Girl playing a //guashi, sitting with a group of girls and boys (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31216 "Children in groups": Girl playing a //guashi, sitting with a group of girls and boys (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Norna with groups": Five girls sitting in a row beside N!ai's wedding skerm, including N!ai, ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Nama (daughter of "Geo Helmet" of Band 2) and ≠Nisa (wife of "/Gao Music" in Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31384.1 "Norna with groups": Five girls sitting in a row beside N!ai's wedding skerm, including N!ai, ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Nama (daughter of "Geo Helmet" of Band 2) and ≠Nisa (wife of "/Gao Music" in Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31225.1 "Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31398.1 "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25754 "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Norna tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" (left) and three unidentified girls sitting with !Ungka Norna (center)
2001.29.412.1 "Little N!ai" (left) and three unidentified girls sitting with !Ungka Norna (center)
Gautscha
"Music": Two girls playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30735.1 "Music": Two girls playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30739 "Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Girls seated close together; one playing a //guashi
2001.29.25772.1 Girls seated close together; one playing a //guashi
Gautscha
"Boys and girls playing together": Boys and girls dancing on a ledge by a waterhole, one boy playing a //guashi
2001.29.31292 "Boys and girls playing together": Boys and girls dancing on a ledge by a waterhole, one boy playing a //guashi
Nyae Nyae Conservancy