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"Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
"Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31257
Display Title "Carrying children": /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / A woman brings wood for her family / fire, which the !Kung keep burning / all night. / We published in South West Africa Annual / 1956, p. 45 / 44/4 / 44-4"; 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: 16.1925 × 19.685 cm (6 3/8 × 7 3/4 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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/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.373.1 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29907 [No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30110 [No folder title]: /Goishay carrying wood with her baby on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder
2001.29.14034 /Goishay carrying wood, with her baby on her shoulder
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Carrying children": /Goishay (wife of ≠Gao from Band 3) walking and carrying her daughter on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31256 "Carrying children": /Goishay (wife of ≠Gao from Band 3) walking and carrying her daughter on her shoulder (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.736.1 Digging for roots: Bau from Band 10 digging veldkos, with her child tied to her back (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
2001.29.269 ≠Toma mending Laurence Marshall's shoe, with "Old Gau" and "Gao Medicine" watching
Gautscha
/Goishay, wife of ≠Gao, headman of Band 3, sitting with two of her children in front of a skerm; shows her scarification on her leg (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25654 /Goishay, wife of ≠Gao, headman of Band 3, sitting with two of her children in front of a skerm; shows her scarification on her leg (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29918.1 [No folder title]: "Old /Gam" sitting and drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads with her drill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25528.1 /Naoka, first wife of /Ti!kay, performs a choa ceremony for her daughter, Bau, wife of Tsamgao. N!ai, /Naoka's sister; !Ghia, wife of ≠Gao; and Goishay, mother of /Naoka and N!ai are seated with their backs to the camera watching (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha