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              IZI GWS 01 27D
              IZI GWS 01 27D
              IZI GWS-IZI-GWS-01-27D.jpg · Item · 2007
              Part of Stow, George
              13/04/1868. Cattle, baboons, bags, attenuated figures (elongated figures), felines and springbok (springbuk) Bloemhoff, Jakes
              IZI GWS 01 29D
              IZI GWS 01 29D
              IZI GWS-IZI-GWS-01-29D.jpg · Item · 2007
              Part of Stow, George
              13/04/1868. 15. Felines, human figures, head-dresses and eland. Bloemhoff, Jakes
              IZI HT 01 100HC
              IZI HT 01 100HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-100HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              VII. Birds and upside-down eland.

              Birds are commonly depicted in rock art. Some of the depictions of birds are shown swooping down on animals or standing next to dead antelope. In San mythology, flight is a wide spread metaphor for trance experience due to the sensations of rising up and floating that are part of some altered states of consciousness produced by the universal human nervous system.               Buffels Fontein I
              IZI HT 01 101HC
              IZI HT 01 101HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-101HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              VIII. Baboons.

              Baboons are painted and engraved more frequently than jackals, and they also feature more frequently in Bushman myth and folklore. The /Xam believed that, like the lion, the baboon had similar powers to those of shamans. It was supposed to draw these powers from a small stick of a plant, which it kept in its left cheek. Some depictions of baboons show a whole troop with males, females and babies. There are also therianthropic baboons which express the closeness of baboons to people and, more important, the association between baboons and shamans.               Buffels Fontein I
              IZI HT 01 102HC
              IZI HT 01 102HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-102HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              VII. Bags and eland.

              Bushman beliefs suggest that bags had a special significance beyond everyday use. Their relation to trance metaphors is illustrated in San mythology, where parallels were drawn between getting into a skin bag and getting into an animal- that is, taking on its potency. Therefore, bags painted next to a dance or by themselves, are probably an indication of a trance experience.               Buffels Fontein I