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"Boys and girls playing together": Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing (print is a cropped image)
"Boys and girls playing together": Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31291
Display Title "Boys and girls playing together": Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ngamiland (North West) / Cgae Cgae Tlhabologo Trust / Gwia
Materials Print, color
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 × 12.7 cm (3 1/2 × 5 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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Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing
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2001.29.8007 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing and two boys wearing rattles on their legs
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Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8006 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
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Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8003 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8002 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8005 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
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Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8004 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
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Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
2001.29.7998 Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
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Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1606 Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
2001.29.7999 Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
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Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
2001.29.8001 Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
Gwia
Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
2001.29.8000 Children playing at a curing dance, girls clapping and singing and the boys dancing like the men
Gwia