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Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing
Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing
Object Number 2001.29.32681
Display Title Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ngamiland (North West) / Cgae Cgae Tlhabologo Trust / Gwia
Materials Slide, color
Dimensions Overall: 2.5 × 3.5 cm (1 × 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
"Boys and girls playing together": Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.31291 "Boys and girls playing together": Women beginning to clap for a curing dance, children dancing (print is a cropped image)
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing and two boys wearing rattles on their legs
2001.29.8007 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing and two boys wearing rattles on their legs
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8006 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8003 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8002 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8005 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
2001.29.8004 Adults gathering for a curing dance, women clapping and children dancing
Gwia
Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1606 Dance: Man performing a ritual curing at a daytime dance, with //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) dancing a few steps beside him and another man standing nearby (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the circle of women at a daytime dance, with a woman carrying a baby dancing between !Naishi and Gau (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1615 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the circle of women at a daytime dance, with a woman carrying a baby dancing between !Naishi and Gau (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the women at a daytime dance, including !Naishi, with two women standing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1613 Dance: Line of men dancing clockwise around the women at a daytime dance, including !Naishi, with two women standing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) with a feather in her hair, dancing with the men at a daytime dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1598 Dance: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi) with a feather in her hair, dancing with the men at a daytime dance, view from the expedition truck with a wide-angle lens (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting, with one woman dancing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
2001.29.1575 Dance: Men dancing counter-clockwise at a daytime dance, beginning to cut through the circle of women sitting, with one woman dancing (the primary role of the women is to sit in a circle to clap and sing, providing music for the dancing men)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy