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"Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a running, with children running after her (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
"Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a running, with children running after her (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Object Number 2001.29.31339
Display Title "Women's Ball Game": Khuan//a running, with children running after her (print is a cropped image). tamah n!o’an (ball game)
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": 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 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
Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); other children are watching and running, distant view (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28849 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); other children are watching and running, distant view (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"The 1957-8 Games": Group of women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31351 "The 1957-8 Games": Group of women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Women's Ball Game": Group of youths; a boy is holding aloft the melon with which girls were playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31348 "Women's Ball Game": Group of youths; a boy is holding aloft the melon with which girls were playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game) (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": 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); 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
"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": 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
Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); other children are watching and running, distant view
2001.29.22983 Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); other children are watching and running, distant view
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