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"Photos of Children": Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing (print is a cropped image)
"Photos of Children": Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31472
Display Title "Photos of Children": Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Laurence K. Marshall / Peabody Museum / Expedition to / South West Africa" and "Under no circumstances may this / reproduction be released to the general public"
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: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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
Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing
2001.29.22216 Left to right: !Ungka Norna leaning against her mother, !U, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, /Naoka (wife of "Gao Medicine"), //Khuga (/Naoka and "Gao Medicine's" daughter) and behind: an unidentified, visiting girl, !U's mother, and Bau, standing
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": !Ungka Norna leaning against !U's back, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, !U's mother, an unidentified, visiting girl, //Khuga, and /Naoka (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31474 "Photos of Children": !Ungka Norna leaning against !U's back, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, !U's mother, an unidentified, visiting girl, //Khuga, and /Naoka (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.28665 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
2001.29.22705 Seated group including !Ungka Norna holding !U and left to right, back row: Kernel Ledimo and Lorna Marshall seated in chairs, /Naoka (!U's mother), an unidentified woman, Kwho//o ("/Gao Music's" mother), Xama ("Gao Beard's" mother), //Khuga ("Gao Medicine's" daughter), three unidentified women; left to right, front: Di!ai, Debe, possibly Tsamgao, and Bau standing beside her father, Crooked /Qui
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!Ungka Norna leaning against !U's back, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, !U's mother, an unidentified, visiting girl, //Khuga, and /Naoka
2001.29.22218 !Ungka Norna leaning against !U's back, "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf, !U's mother, an unidentified, visiting girl, //Khuga, and /Naoka
Nama Pan
Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
2001.29.22093 Group of people including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsmagao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing
Nama Pan
"The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31426 "The 1955 study of groups with children": Group of Ju/'hoansi including "≠Gao Lame" seated on a log and /Naoka, Gao Medicine's first wife, lying in the foreground, and left to right: /Naoka, mother of !U, Di!ai, with Debe in her lap, /Gaishay standing next to Tsamgao, and !U with !Ungka Norna in her lap, nursing (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": !U, !Unkga Norna playing with a digging stick, ≠Toma, /Gaishay (Toma and ≠U's son) to the left, Tsamgao standing behind !Unkga Norna, their grandmother in the background, and "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf; part of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's child study (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31464 "Photos of Children": !U, !Unkga Norna playing with a digging stick, ≠Toma, /Gaishay (Toma and ≠U's son) to the left, Tsamgao standing behind !Unkga Norna, their grandmother in the background, and "Gao Lame" wearing a headscarf; part of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's child study (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl beside a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31480 "Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl beside a fire (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl beside a fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31479 "Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl beside a fire (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31481 "Photos of Children": /Naoka (!U's mother), !Ungka Norna, and an unidentified, visiting girl (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
"Photos of Children": Unidentified person and Bau, who is playing with a digging stick to the left, Debe watching /Gaishay cut a piece of meat with a knife, and /Naoka looking through "Gao Medicine's" hair for lice; part of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's child study (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31453 "Photos of Children": Unidentified person and Bau, who is playing with a digging stick to the left, Debe watching /Gaishay cut a piece of meat with a knife, and /Naoka looking through "Gao Medicine's" hair for lice; part of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's child study (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan