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Object Number
2001.29.31273
Display Title
"Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on board (verso): "Two little !Kung Bushman boys get a drink of milk from / their mother at the same time. / (Di!ai 2nd wi of Gao Medicine, /Gaishay (left) and / his younger brother. name? Note the younger / look up / child (he is Di!ai's youngest (1955) is trying to shove / his brother away) / (Cf. 55-84P-36. A similar scene in another occasion)"
Department
Photographic
Date
1955
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dimensions
Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 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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![[No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748738/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/743600/postagestamp)
