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"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31238.2
Display Title "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in ink on photograph (verso): "#6 / 123"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
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: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31238.1 "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31238 "≠Toma's sister !Ungka from Kai Kai, Her da. [daughter] Sa≠gai, she is wife of /Ga[i]shay": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of !Nai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//kaho (her baby) sitting in the front row (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29272 [No folder title]: Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of !Nai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//kaho (her baby) sitting in the front row (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of N!ai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//khao (her baby) sitting in the front row
2001.29.684 Unidentified Ju/'hoan man, Herero man wearing a hat, unidentified Ju/'hoan man (all three visiting from Kai Kai), ≠Toma, Tsamgao (his son), and /Gunda (husband of N!ai) sitting in the back row; and !Ungka (≠Toma's sister from Kai Kai) with Sa≠gai and ≠Kham (her two children), an unidentified girl, !Ungka (Norna) (daughter of ≠Toma and !U), and !U with Di//khao (her baby) sitting in the front row
Gautscha
"Mortar and pestle": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30414 "Mortar and pestle": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.2 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25544 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
2001.29.25101 Top: ≠Toma's sister, !Ungka, holding her daughter Sa≠gai who is drinking from an ostrich eggshell, with Tsamgao, husband of /Ti!kay's daughter Bau, sitting beside her; Bottom: "Crooked /Qui" and another man digging for poison beetles
Gautscha
"Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30526.1 "Waterhole / Gwia": !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle
2001.29.19480 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) and her daughter, Sa≠gai, who is playing with a mortar and pestle
Gautscha
!U holding !Ungka Norna on her knee, sitting with ≠Toma's sister and her baby daughter, Sa≠gai, next to a skerm
2001.29.14814 !U holding !Ungka Norna on her knee, sitting with ≠Toma's sister and her baby daughter, Sa≠gai, next to a skerm
Gautscha
!Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her
2001.29.19481 !Ungka (≠Toma's sister) with her daughter, Sa≠gai, sitting on her knees drinking from an ostrich eggshell; Tsamgao (Bau's husband) sitting beside her
Gautscha