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"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31411
Display Title "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "L. K. Marshall / A little boy wears his father's dance rattles / and dances as the men do. This picture / was printed by South West Africa on a 1 1/2 d / stamped post card. / The boy's name is ≠Gao / cf. xxx / 1X 37"; 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: 20.6375 × 14.605 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/4 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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"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411.1 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411.4 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411.2 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31411.3 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30054 [No folder title]: "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31412 "Little ≠Gao": "Little ≠Gao," son of /Qui and //Kushay, dancing with rattles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /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)
2001.29.31318.1 "Children playing curing dance": /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 playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31324 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31323 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31321 "Children playing curing dance": /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine") and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing and playing medicine man (print is a cropped image)
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
"//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29929 "//Kushay II #32, 2nd wife of Gao #28": //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) and Xama (her little daughter) playing with the mortar, sitting beside their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha