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Object Number 2001.29.30913
Display Title [No folder title]: Man who made the fire
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / Okwa
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 17.4625 cm (4 3/4 × 6 7/8 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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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Man who made the fire
2001.29.19616 Man who made the fire
Okwa
"Firemaking": Man who made the fire holding the firesticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30476 "Firemaking": Man who made the fire holding the firesticks (print is a cropped image)
Okwa
Man who made the fire holding the firesticks
2001.29.19617 Man who made the fire holding the firesticks
Okwa
[No folder title]: Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.30994 [No folder title]: Metal objects among /Twikwe's possessions, including a nail-like piece of metal thrust into a stick used to sharpen knives, an awl for sewing, 2 pipes from cartridge shells, a fire-striker, a knife belonging to //Kwai≠kabe (her son), a piece of bone or duiker horn, an axe belonging to her husband, a metal piece he found which he will hammer into an implement, a metal pounding rod, and two scrapers made from an old knife blade, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
[No folder title]: /Ti!kay curing a woman who is lying sick in a circle of women sitting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29306 [No folder title]: /Ti!kay curing a woman who is lying sick in a circle of women sitting (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Ti!kay curing a woman who is lying sick in a circle of women sitting, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29307 [No folder title]: /Ti!kay curing a woman who is lying sick in a circle of women sitting, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Medicine man curing a woman who is leaning against another woman (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29287 [No folder title]: Medicine man curing a woman who is leaning against another woman (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30133 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa sitting with their child by their fire, with two big roots cooking in the fire (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
2001.29.29326 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
Tsumkwe
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
2001.29.29326.1 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
Tsumkwe
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
2001.29.29326.2 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting and watching dancers who have danced all night
Tsumkwe
[No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29934 [No folder title]: Dam and ǂGisa and their child sitting by fire, cooking roots (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha