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Object Number
2001.29.31314.1
Display Title
"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), including //Ao (husband of Khuan//a, daughter of /Gaishay of Band 4), who is stretching out his hand (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "32-5 / Story close up"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Credit to / Peabody Museum / Harvard University"
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: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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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