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"/Gao Music" working on arrow points and sitting with ≠Nisa in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
"/Gao Music" working on arrow points and sitting with ≠Nisa in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31928
Display Title "/Gao Music" working on arrow points and sitting with ≠Nisa in front of their skerm (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 27.9401 × 35.5601 cm (11 × 14 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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"/Gao Music" working on arrow points and sitting with ≠Nisa in front of their skerm
2001.29.14812 "/Gao Music" working on arrow points and sitting with ≠Nisa in front of their skerm
Gautscha
"/Gao Music" and ≠Nisa in front of their skerm
2001.29.26137 "/Gao Music" and ≠Nisa in front of their skerm
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29951 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" sitting by a fire in front of a skerm (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of people sitting in front of a skerm, telling stories, including Zuma (daughter of "Old Xama," wife of Gao), Xama, Gao (son of Debe, headman of Band 24 in Cho/ana) and /Qui (brother of "Gao Helmet")
2001.29.389.1 Group of people sitting in front of a skerm, telling stories, including Zuma (daughter of "Old Xama," wife of Gao), Xama, Gao (son of Debe, headman of Band 24 in Cho/ana) and /Qui (brother of "Gao Helmet")
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29937 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Group of Ju/'hoansi dancing; "/Gao Music" in trance
2001.29.25858 Group of Ju/'hoansi dancing; "/Gao Music" in trance
Gautscha
Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30298 Arrows, arrow poison: "/Gao Music" poisoning arrows, showing the bone dish in which the poison is mixed (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
[No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30420.1 [No folder title]: "/Gao Music" putting poison on his arrows (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Men dancing around a circle of women sitting, with "/Gao Music" falling in trance, supported by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi of Band 5)
2001.29.366.1 Men dancing around a circle of women sitting, with "/Gao Music" falling in trance, supported by "Crooked /Qui" and ≠Toma (son of /Naishi of Band 5)
Gautscha
"N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
2001.29.30516.3 "N!ai and /Gunda": Little N!ai" and /Gunda (son of Khuan//a and her former husband) sitting by their skerm with their wedding party, including Tsamgao (son of ≠Toma and !U), ≠Gisa (daughter of ≠Gao and Khwo//o-/Gasa), Xama (daughter of "Gao Helmet" and //Kushay), ≠Gao (son of Gau and Be), and a boy playing the //guashi
Gautscha
"Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30729.2 "Meat sharing": "Gao Medicine" bringing a quarter of meat in meat distribution to a group of people sitting in front of a skerm, including "Old ≠Toma" sitting in the middle of the group (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy