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[No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
[No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.31987.1
Display Title [No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "55-122 P 26 / #18 / 55-122P-26 / Negative / mislaid / as of March 1979"; written in red on photograph (verso): "59%"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass."
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 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]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31987.2 [No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31987 [No folder title]: /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her
2001.29.23108 /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying an ostrich egg into a pot, with child sitting on somebody's back behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine") emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
2001.29.23107 /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine") emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
2001.29.28916 /Naoka, first wife of "Gao Medicine," emptying contents from an ostrich eggshell into a pot, with a child sitting on somebody's back behind her
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Ostrich egg shell bead making": !U sitting with a group of people, drilling holes in ostrich eggshell beads (print is a cropped image)
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Gautscha
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Gautscha
Food, Meat: "Old ≠Toma" emptying an ostrich egg into an Ovambo pot, with another man sitting beside him and a piece of meat on the ground near them
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" first wife) cooking mangetti nuts (print is a cropped and enlarged image)
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Gautscha
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Gautscha
Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot
2001.29.25690.2 Bo, brother of /Naoka (first wife of "Gao Medicine"), visiting Gautscha, and cooking meat in an Ovambo pot
Gautscha