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![[No folder title]: /Twikwe pounding something in a mortar](/internal/media/dispatcher/747775/preview)
Object Number
2001.29.30991
Display Title
[No folder title]: /Twikwe pounding something in a mortar
Descriptions
Department
Photographic
Date
1955
Culture
- /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Botswana
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Ghanzi
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Central Kalahari Game Reserve
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/Ai Ha !O Pan
Materials
Print, black and white
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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![[No folder title]: /Twikwe, Tsekue, DaSi!Na sitting beside /Twikwe's / fire; Tsekue digging open a tsama melon and DaSi!Na using a mortar and pounding stick](/internal/media/dispatcher/747767/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: DaSi!Na kneeling, pounding something in her mortar](/internal/media/dispatcher/747766/postagestamp)
![[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](/internal/media/dispatcher/747780/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: Close up of Di!ai (wife of Gao) pounding something, using a mortar (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/748694/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: //Kuǂtera, DaSi!Na, and /Twikwe sitting around a fire cooking in a pot](/internal/media/dispatcher/747700/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]:/Twikwe holding a pot](/internal/media/dispatcher/747679/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: Oukwane and !Gai reclining; /Twikwe passing a pipe to Oukwane](/internal/media/dispatcher/747794/postagestamp)
![[No folder title]: //Kushay ("Gao Helmet's" second wife) pounding with mortar and pestle (print is a cropped image)](/internal/media/dispatcher/737395/postagestamp)