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"Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
"Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31378.1
Display Title "Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term ‘’Bah N≠aqu”: /Aice (da’ama o G/ao Medicinema” sa Ti!’ae ku n≠aq bah
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 adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 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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"Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31378 "Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay and /Qui, trying to knock one of their sticks out of a tree (print is a cropped image), Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
2001.29.31381 "Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay and /Qui, trying to knock one of their sticks out of a tree (print is a cropped image), Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
Gautscha
"Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay and "Little Gao" playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game), standing on an ant-hill, with another boy standing near them (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31379 "Stick Throwing Game": /Gaishay and "Little Gao" playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game), standing on an ant-hill, with another boy standing near them (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25609.1 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
2001.29.270 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game)
Gautscha
/Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25609 /Gaishay wearing beads, a bag, and dance rattles; he is playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31376 "Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31376.1 "Stick Throwing Game": Boys playing Bah n≠aq’u (the stick throwing game) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai playing the stick-throwing game
2001.29.13948 /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai playing the stick-throwing game
Gautscha
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 Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1)
2001.29.13925 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 Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1)
Gautscha
Children, Toys: /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai) throwing a stick in the stick game, to see who can throw the farthest
2001.29.1475 Children, Toys: /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai) throwing a stick in the stick game, to see who can throw the farthest
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Toys: Boy sitting by ashes, scraping the bark off a stick for the stick game, with a view of the werft
2001.29.1473 Children, Toys: Boy sitting by ashes, scraping the bark off a stick for the stick game, with a view of the werft
Nyae Nyae Conservancy