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"Boys' play": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
"Boys' play": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31414.1
Display Title "Boys' play": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
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: 25.4001 × 20.32 cm (10 × 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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"Boys' play": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31414 "Boys' play": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Children in groups": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31210 "Children in groups": Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy
2001.29.13860 Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy
Gautscha
Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31924 Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy
2001.29.358 Gao (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa) standing with his arms around another boy
Gautscha
"Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31312.1 "Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31312 "Porcupine or Axe and Assegai [game]": 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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1) (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1)
2001.29.13925 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 (son of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa of Band 4) and /Gishay (son of "Old Gau," Band 1)
Gautscha
Marriage: /Gunda and N!ai sitting in front of their skerm with Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet"), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and two boys with //guashis
2001.29.3075 Marriage: /Gunda and N!ai sitting in front of their skerm with Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet"), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and two boys with //guashis
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Marriage: /Gunda and N!ai sitting in front of their skerm with Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet"), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and two boys with //guashis, with a tree next to a dance circle in the background
2001.29.3076 Marriage: /Gunda and N!ai sitting in front of their skerm with Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet"), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Tsamgao (≠Toma's son) and two boys with //guashis, with a tree next to a dance circle in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
2001.29.2119 Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Children, Groups, play: Group of boys and girls playing on a termite mound, including ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/gasa) wearing ornaments and white beads
2001.29.1401 Children, Groups, play: Group of boys and girls playing on a termite mound, including ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/gasa) wearing ornaments and white beads
Nyae Nyae Conservancy