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"N≠a N≠a Hau": Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game) (print is a cropped image)
"N≠a N≠a Hau": Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game) (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31400
Display Title "N≠a N≠a Hau": Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game) (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 × 13.6525 cm (4 × 5 3/8 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game)
2001.29.14539 Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game)
Gautscha
Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game)
2001.29.26000 Children playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game)
Gautscha
"N≠a N≠a Hau": Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31399 "N≠a N≠a Hau": Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing
2001.29.14538 Girls playing N≠a N≠a Hau / N!hau-N!hau (the basket game), weaving their feet together and hopping around in a circle on one foot, singing
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of 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 "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31212 "Children in groups": Group of 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 "≠Gao Lame," /Gunda with a feather, ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be of Band 2) and Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma, Band 1) (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
"Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31316.1 "Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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) (print is a cropped image)
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
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 in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31217 "Children in groups": Boys and girls dancing, with a girl playing the //guashi; "Little N!ai" is standing fourth from the left (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gunda, son of Gau and Be, and husband of N!ai, of Band 1, playing a game (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25599 /Gunda, son of Gau and Be, and husband of N!ai, of Band 1, playing a 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); other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31342 "Women's Ball Game": Girls playing N!owa t/ama (melon tossing game) / tamah n!o’an (ball game); other children present in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy