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              NASMUS RSA BUL2 14
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 14
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-14.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Human figures, running figures, bending forward posture, quivers, bows, karosses, bleeding from the nose. Burley II
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 19
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 19
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-19.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Human figures, running figures, arms back posture, bows and quivers. Burley II
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 20
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 20
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-20.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Human figures, streamers, bows and arrows. Burley II
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 43
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 43
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-43.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Eland.

              The eland was the first animal that the San trickster deity, /Kaggen created and it remained his favourite.
              The eland is the largest of southern African antelope and is much desired for its meat and fat. The San say that all other animals are like servants to the eland.

              The importance of this animal is shown in the great variety of postures and perspectives. It is depicted running with tail outstretched, with uplifted head smelling the wind, and upside down, presumably dead. The eland is also depicted from the front or from the back, and even from above.

              The eland appears in four important San rituals it is the most carefully depicted antelope in both rock paintings and engravings: Trance dance, boy's first kill, girl's puberty and marriage. It is believed that eland fat contains a lot of potency and in a trance dance shamans aspire to possess eland potency.               Burley II
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 5
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 5
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-5.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Zoomorphic figures, rhebuck, human figures, arrows, flying creatures, lines emanating from the head, bleeding from the nose. Burley II
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 7
              NASMUS RSA BUL2 7
              ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-BUL2-7.jpg · Item · 11/10/2001
              Part of National Museum
              Human figures, flying creatures, lines emanating from the head, streamers, bows and arrows. Burley II
              RARI RSA BUL2 17
              RARI RSA BUL2 17
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BUL2-17.jpg · Item · 01/12/1986
              Part of RARI
              Therianthropes, human figures, quivers, sticks. Lewis-Williams, David (Dr.)
              RARI RSA BUL2 9
              RARI RSA BUL2 9
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BUL2-9.jpg · Item · 01/12/1986
              Part of RARI
              Human figures, therianthropes, squatting figures, karosses, bending forward posture, sticks, arrows, eland, antelope, weird whites, bleeding from the nose, phallus, interaction with a feature of the rock surface. Dowson, Thomas