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Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31161
Display Title [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on board (verso): "A !Kung Bushman woman placing her ostrich / egg shells which she has filled with water / at the waterhole into her kaross where she / carries them. Probably 8 are hers The other piles / probably belong to other women / (Khuan//a, wi of Gau, and her youngest son.)"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Nama Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 15.875 × 19.685 cm (6 1/4 × 7 3/4 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 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
2001.29.22943 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31163 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her
2001.29.22945 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31162 [No folder title]: Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross with her child standing beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
2001.29.22944 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28830 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells wrapped in grass in her kaross and her child standing near her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells into her kaross with her child standing beside her
2001.29.22946 Khuan//a (Gau's wife) placing ostrich egg shells into her kaross with her child standing beside her
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28833 Woman gathering her filled ostrich eggshells (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
Woman wearing a safety pin in her ear, cutting a piece of ostrich eggshell with a knife, with ≠Toma sitting in the background eating
2001.29.16077 Woman wearing a safety pin in her ear, cutting a piece of ostrich eggshell with a knife, with ≠Toma sitting in the background eating
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her
2001.29.22917 Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her
Nama Pan
Image Not Available for Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.28814 Di!ai walking from the back with Debe sitting on her shoulder while /Gaishay runs ahead; another unidentified woman is walking beside her (print is a cropped image)
Nama Pan
N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
2001.29.17517 N!ai wearing a kaross, squatting at the edge of a pan, pouring water from a tin into an ostrich eggshell, with a bag of ostrich eggshells on her back, a person squatting behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy