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"Women's Ball Game": Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
"Women's Ball Game": Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31337
Display Title "Women's Ball Game": Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Dshau tsan sa maq da’abi ku n!o’an tamah te ku //’am ka djxani.
Department Photographic
Date 1957-1958
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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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Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (a ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
2001.29.16305 Two women with babies on their backs dancing and clapping, playing tamah n!o’an (a ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31343 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); four girls to the left are singing and clapping and an unidentified, visiting girl in the center carries a child on her back while she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Groups, play: Girls playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) in a dance circle area, with a pan filled with water in the distance
2001.29.1433 Children, Groups, play: Girls playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) in a dance circle area, with a pan filled with water in the distance
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
2001.29.1403 Children, Groups, play: Group of girls playing Tamah n!o’an (ball game); the girl running up the hill has just thrown the ball to the girl at the right who is catching it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1957-8 Games": //Gao and ≠Gisa playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) with their arms around each other, N!ai sitting on the ground clapping, a girl standing against a tree clapping, another girl sitting and clapping
2001.29.31355 "The 1957-8 Games": //Gao and ≠Gisa playing Tcxai Djxani (a dancing game) with their arms around each other, N!ai sitting on the ground clapping, a girl standing against a tree clapping, another girl sitting and clapping
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Two women clapping and singing, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
2001.29.16309 Two women clapping and singing, playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) / !’hu kuitzi (veldkos game)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); !Ungka's cousin catches the ball from an unidentified, visiting girl while other children watch in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31347 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); !Ungka's cousin catches the ball from an unidentified, visiting girl while other children watch in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344.1 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"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
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31344.2 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carries a child on her back as she plays; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31345 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); an unidentified, visiting girl carrying a child on her back tosses the melon as !Ungka's cousin runs to catch it; other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy