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"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)
Object Number 2001.29.31338.1
Display Title "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Anneliese Scherz - Windhoek / Box 180"
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: 10.16 × 15.24 cm (4 × 6 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's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31338 "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a playing with "Little ≠Gao" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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
"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
"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": Khuan//a running, with children running after her (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.31339 "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a running, with children running after her (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha
"The 1957-8 Games": Girls playing the "piggy-back" game at the pan, including ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), "Little !Nai" and ≠Nisa (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31352 "The 1957-8 Games": Girls playing the "piggy-back" game at the pan, including ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), "Little !Nai" and ≠Nisa (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31318.1 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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)
2001.29.25601 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
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31324 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31323 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31321 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha