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Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
"Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31338
Display Title "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations 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
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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31338.1 "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Khuan//a the "musician" playing with "Little ≠Gao"
2001.29.25887 Khuan//a the "musician" playing with "Little ≠Gao"
Gautscha
Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao"
2001.29.14418 Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao"
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29922 "Band 5, Khuan//a the Musician (85)": Khuan//a sitting in front of a skerm and playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30739 "Music": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "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)
2001.29.31314.1 "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)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "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
Image Not Available for "N!ai in groups": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31196 "N!ai in groups": "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30111 [No folder title]: "Little N!ai" playing the //guashi, with Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and sister of "Gao Medicine") sitting behind her (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Three boys, including /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son), playing or dancing (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.26010.1 Three boys, including /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son), playing or dancing (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha