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            32 Images & Collections results for Cathcart

            RARI RSA WAD1 1R
            RARI RSA WAD1 1R
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WAD1-1R.jpg · Item
            Part of RARI
            This image was published in 'Images of Power' page 66 and in 'A Cosmos in Stone' page 174 (f 8.1A). Zigzags, finger dots and snakes. Waterdown I
            RARI RSA DRF6 2
            RARI RSA DRF6 2
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-DRF6-2.jpg · Item · 22/09/1999
            Part of RARI
            Digging sticks. Farm VI 81
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 25
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 25
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-WAD1-25.jpg · Item
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Snakes.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Waterdown I
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 17
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 17
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-WAD1-17.jpg · Item
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Snakes ad finger dots.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Waterdown I
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 10
            RARI LEE RSA WAD1 10
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-WAD1-10.jpg · Item
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Snakes, finger dots and arms back postures.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Waterdown I
            RARI LEE RSA TOL1 13
            RARI LEE RSA TOL1 13
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-TOL1-13.jpg · Item · 01/12/1997
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Bows and arrows. Dogs.

            Different kinds of bows are depicted in San art. From curved, comparatively straight and triple curved there are a variety of bows found in rock art.Depiction of arrows, whether they be real or not (arrows of sickness) are quite common in rock art.Arrows of sickness are said to be small, invisible arrows that malevolent shamans shoot into people whom they wish to make ill.The arrow points were traditionally made of bone and later of iron. Each point is distinctive; hunters recognise their own and others’ arrows. This is important because an animal belongs to the owner of the fatal arrow, and that person has the responsibility of distributing the meat equitably amongst all the people in the camp.The poison for which the San are known is placed behind the point so as not to blunt it. The poison was made from snake venom, certain plants and beetle larvae. There is no known antidote, and the San are extremely careful indeed to avoid it getting into their eyes and skin. Men carry their arrows in quivers.             Toplands I
            RARI LEE RSA TOL1 11
            RARI LEE RSA TOL1 11
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-TOL1-11.jpg · Item · 01/12/1997
            Part of Lee, Neil
            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.             Toplands I
            RARI LEE RSA PUR1 5
            RARI LEE RSA PUR1 5
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-PUR1-5.jpg · Item · 01/01/1974
            Part of Lee, Neil
            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.             Traders Drift I
            RARI LEE RSA LOR3 93
            RARI LEE RSA LOR3 93
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-LOR3-93.jpg · Item · 01/12/1997
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Elephants.

            Elephants are fairly frequently painted and engraved in certain regions.The paintings may be in red, black or white. Sometimes elephants are shown being hunted by a large party of men.
            There are also therianthropes with elephant heads and trunks: it is thus possible that they were part of a shaman’s vision. According to the! Kung elephants have remarkable potency. Some of the most interesting paintings of elephants are in the Western Cape, and they are shown surrounded by zigzags and crenellated lines.             Longreach III