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[No folder title]: /Gaishay playing a stick-throwing game, wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: /Gaishay playing a stick-throwing game, wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31244
Display Title [No folder title]: /Gaishay playing a stick-throwing game, wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles (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: 15.5575 × 9.8425 cm (6 1/8 × 3 7/8 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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/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25609 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25609.1 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
2001.29.270 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Bau and /Gaishay putting dance rattles on Debe with unidentified people in the background including a man wearing a hat (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31123 [No folder title]: Bau and /Gaishay putting dance rattles on Debe with unidentified people in the background including a man wearing a hat (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaishay, ≠Toma's son, pushing a tortoise shell with a stick. He is saying "brrrrr" and calls the game "playing auto" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25694.1 /Gaishay, ≠Toma's son, pushing a tortoise shell with a stick. He is saying "brrrrr" and calls the game "playing auto" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including //Ao (husband of Khuan//a, daughter of /Gaishay of Band 4), who is stretching out his hand (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25601 Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game), including //Ao (husband of Khuan//a, daughter of /Gaishay of Band 4), who is stretching out his hand (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little /Gaishay" (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine") wearing rattles
2001.29.14727 "Little /Gaishay" (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine") wearing rattles
Gautscha
"Little /Gaishay" (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine") wearing rattles
2001.29.26080 "Little /Gaishay" (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine") wearing rattles
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31316.1 "Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": Men and boys playing !ó'm!hú / !’Om g!xuni / ’Ai kota !U!u g!xuni / N!aih //’an (the porcupine game, also known as the axe game, assegai game or war game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Women's Ball Game": Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31340 "Women's Ball Game": Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31321 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha