Departures of note

In the early 1990s, Cg'ose Ntcox'o, a San artist from Botswana, found her work at the center of a disputed transaction with British Airways. After some of her pieces were shown in a London gallery, airline representatives purchased one and used it as the basis for a design in their ethnic livery scheme. A representative traveled to Africa to meet her; in her telling, she was handed a piece of paper and told to make a cross. Despite being illiterate, she was held to have transferred the rights to her work, receiving 12,000 pula. At the time, her husband was ill with tuberculosis, her daughter was unemployed, and she was responsible for supporting a large family.

Born around 1950 in the Ghanzi District of Botswana, Ntcox'o was a member of the Ncoakhoe people, speakers of the Naro language. She was part of the Kuru Art Project, a collective of San artists. In 1996, she collaborated with other artists from the project on Qauqaua, an artists' book published in Johannesburg. In 1999, she was one of eight artists—four from the Kalahari and four from New Mexico—to participate in a cultural exchange with the University of New Mexico, creating a suite of lithographs on the subject of tricksters in folklore.

Her work is held in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art and the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which displays her lithograph Jujubu and Nxam Veldfood in its City and County Government Building. In 2004, one of her works appeared on a Botswana postage stamp, part of a set of four depicting contemporary artists. Late in life, Ntcox'o was taken in by fellow artist Coex'ae Qgam, with whom she lived until Qgam's death. Ntcox'o herself died of a stroke in 2013, leaving almost no estate.