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Object Number
2001.29.31404
Display Title
"The Jani [Djani]": Boys throwing a djani (helicopter toy) into the air (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "1952-53 / made from color slide 10D-12 / 224-36"; written on note found with print: "was a new neg made? / We have a print of the / jani in flight with / 4 boys Gautscha 1952-3 / I believe from a slide / #224-36 / Try to find neg. / As of March 1979"
Department
Photographic
Date
1952-1953
Culture
- Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Namibia
/
Otjozondjupa
/
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/
Gautscha
Materials
Print, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 12.7 × 17.78 cm (5 × 7 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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