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"Boys playing hunting": /Gaishay shooting an arrow (print is a cropped image)
"Boys playing hunting": /Gaishay shooting an arrow (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31402
Display Title "Boys playing hunting": /Gaishay shooting an arrow (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "LB43808 / 55-124P-5"; stamped on photograph (verso): "[Please return / to] / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 11.1125 × 17.4625 cm (4 3/8 × 6 7/8 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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[No folder title]: /Ti!kay sitting in front of a skerm and holding his hunting equipment, with a boy standing next to him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29939.2 [No folder title]: /Ti!kay sitting in front of a skerm and holding his hunting equipment, with a boy standing next to him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"The Jani [Djani]" (helicopter toy): /Gaishay (≠Toma and U's son) cutting a piece of veldkos with a spear (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31407 "The Jani [Djani]" (helicopter toy): /Gaishay (≠Toma and U's son) cutting a piece of veldkos with a spear (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30022 "Gao Helmet and family, Band 2": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay" and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30765 "Move": Group preparing to leave Gautscha for a hunting and gathering trip, including //Kushay (second wife of "Gao Helmet", headman of Band 2), Xama (Gao's daughter with his first wife) with bead ornaments in her hair, Khuan//a (daughter of "Old /Gaishay and Di//khao, //Kushay's sister) leaning over (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Ti!kay, headman of Band 9, walking in the grass and carrying hunting equipment (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25732 /Ti!kay, headman of Band 9, walking in the grass and carrying hunting equipment (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of men and boys playing a game, including "Gao Medicine," "Old Naishi" (headman of Band 5), and "≠Gao Lame" (standing) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25602 Group of men and boys playing a game, including "Gao Medicine," "Old Naishi" (headman of Band 5), and "≠Gao Lame" (standing) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" demonstrating shooting an arrow, seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31185 [No folder title]: "Crooked /Qui" demonstrating shooting an arrow, seen from the back (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
/Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25687 /Gaishay (son of Di!ai and "Gao Medicine"), Bau (daughter of "Crooked /Qui" and //Khuga), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of "/Qui Navel" and //Kushay) dancing a medicine dance (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31225.2 "Children in groups": Group of boys and girls sitting close together, boys are making toy cars (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: /Ti!kay sitting in front of a skerm and holding his hunting equipment, with a boy standing next to him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29939.1 [No folder title]: /Ti!kay sitting in front of a skerm and holding his hunting equipment, with a boy standing next to him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Norna with groups": /Gaishay (son of ≠Toma) feeding mealies to his sister, !Ungka Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.416 "Norna with groups": /Gaishay (son of ≠Toma) feeding mealies to his sister, !Ungka Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha