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Image Not Available for [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31144
Display Title [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "A !Kung Bushman boy gives a drink of water / from an ostrich egg shell to his little brother / (Left to right. young woman name not known; Bau, Da of / Crooked /Qui; youngest son of Di!ai & Gao Medicine / /Gaishay, his brother giving the drink; far right; Khwo//o, /Gao Music's mother) / Look / up / name"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 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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Image Not Available for [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31252 [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich egg while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft
2001.29.22872 /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich egg while Bau watches; other unidentified women and children sitting in the werft
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31252.1 [No folder title]: /Gaishay and an unidentified, young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other unidentified people in the background (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for "Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31273 "Nursing": Di!ai sitting in a werft with a cord of beads in her mouth while nursing /Gaishay and Debe (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28787 Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28788 Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell
2001.29.22871 Group of unidentified children including /Gaishay helping his younger brother, Debe, take a drink from an ostrich eggshell
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for /Gaishay and a young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other people in the background
2001.29.22873 /Gaishay and a young woman helping Debe drink from an ostrich eggshell while Bau watches and another hand steadies Debe; other people in the background
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28860 Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother) (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother)
2001.29.22998 Group sitting in a werft by a fire; left to right: "Old /Gasa," Dam ("Old /Gasa's" son-in-law; ≠Gisa's husband) playing a //guashi, an unidentified girl kneeling next to him, a woman, mostly likely /Goishay, and ≠Gao ("Old /Gasa's" son; Gau's brother)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25626 Group of men sitting and working around a heap of ashes, including "Old Gau" (Band 1), ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, and brother of "Old Gau," /Gaishay, unidentified man, and "/Qui Navel" (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.29067 Gau, his two wives, Be and Khuan//a, and four of their children sitting on grass padding, their belongings on a branch; Left to right: Be (Gau's first wife), !Naishi (Be's son), /Qui (Khuan//a's son), an unidentified child, Gau, Khuan//a (Gau's second wife), and her youngest son (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy