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"Women's Ball Game": Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
"Women's Ball Game": Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31340
Display Title "Women's Ball Game": Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "Marshall / L. K. Marshall / 207/12 / Two !Kung girls playing ball in a / singing-dancing game. / throwing a melon from one to another 207-12"; 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: 12.065 × 15.875 cm (4 3/4 × 6 1/4 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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/Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.26011.1 /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha
"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
/Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.26011 /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha
Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31922 Young women playing tamah n!o’an (ball game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) (right)
2001.29.285 /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gau" ("/Qui Navel's" son) playing or dancing (left), and young women playing Tamah n!o’an (the ball game) (right)
Gautscha
Three boys, including /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son), playing or dancing, tamah n!o’an (ball game)
2001.29.26010 Three boys, including /Gaishay ("Gao Medicine's" son) and "Little ≠Gao" ("/Qui Navel's" son), playing or dancing, tamah n!o’an (ball game)
Gautscha
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
"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": 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
"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
"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
"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