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"N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
"N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31398.1
Display Title "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (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: 11.7475 × 15.5575 cm (4 5/8 × 6 1/8 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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"N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31398 "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet
2001.29.14701 Children dancing on an ant hill, with girls making patterns in the sand with their feet
Gautscha
"N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31397 "N!ai on ant hill making patterns, girls playing on ant hill": Children dancing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little N!ai" with !Ungka Norna tied to her back, playing the //guashi and dancing on an ant-hill, making a pattern of footprints, view from behind
2001.29.14201 "Little N!ai" with !Ungka Norna tied to her back, playing the //guashi and dancing on an ant-hill, making a pattern of footprints, view from behind
Gautscha
/Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25621.1 /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Children dancing on an ant hill
2001.29.14698 Children dancing on an ant hill
Gautscha
"Ant hills": Ant hill, with pan in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30381 "Ant hills": Ant hill, with pan in the background (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Ant hills": Man standing beside an ant-hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30382 "Ant hills": Man standing beside an ant-hill (print is a cropped image)
Botswana
Children, Groups, play: Girl dancing, making patterns in the dust
2001.29.1407 Children, Groups, play: Girl dancing, making patterns in the dust
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Physical characteristics, including boys": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30813 "Physical characteristics, including boys": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31213 "Children in groups": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine" and Di!ai), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel") standing on an ant hill (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing ant hill, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
2001.29.1859 Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing ant hill, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
Gautscha