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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
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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