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"Children": /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
"Children": /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31437
Display Title "Children": /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on note stapled to paper: "208-12 / Nat / Geog / A !Kung boy, / /Gaishay / (son of Gao / Medicine) / imitates his / father dancing / the ceremonial / curing dance. / (He imitates the / intense expression / of the trance. He / later imitated the trance)"
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 adhered to Paper
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 16.51 cm (8 × 6 1/2 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
/Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26016 /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31900 /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
/Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man
2001.29.14584 /Gaishay dancing and imitating a medicine man
Gautscha
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30316 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
"The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30316.1 "The hunting hand signs": Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns
2001.29.278 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal; sign for wildebeests, which have widely spread horns
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a wildebeest, buffalo or warthog, with wide-apart horns or tusks
2001.29.20987 Person demonstrating the hunting hand signal for a wildebeest, buffalo or warthog, with wide-apart horns or tusks
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Group of men dancing; medicine men not yet in trance
2001.29.25817 Group of men dancing; medicine men not yet in trance
Gautscha
Children, Dance: /Gaishay imitating a medicine man in trance, with "Little ≠Gao" on top of him
2001.29.2907 Children, Dance: /Gaishay imitating a medicine man in trance, with "Little ≠Gao" on top of him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Windpipes; bamboo, six different lengths of pipe lashed together
973-11-70/5277 Windpipes; bamboo, six different lengths of pipe lashed together
Woodwind
Papua New Guinea
Various shapes of figures and circles in colors, including humen, lion spoor, and feather; various shapes of lines and circles in colors, including an ant and feather, on back
997-11-50/12692 Various shapes of figures and circles in colors, including humen, lion spoor, and feather; various shapes of lines and circles in colors, including an ant and feather, on back
Drawing
Gautscha
/Naoka dancing and imitating a medicine man, and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas watching
2001.29.21915 /Naoka dancing and imitating a medicine man, and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas watching
Nama Pan