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            233 Images & Collections results for Cofimvaba

            NASMUS RSA HOF1 16
            NASMUS RSA HOF1 16
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-HOF1-16.jpg · Item · 09/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Therianthropes, human figures, head-dresses, eland, rhebuck, bows and arrows.

            Rhebuck is one of the antelope that are most frequently depicted, after the eland. The rhebuck is comparable to the eland because it is often painted in shaded polychrome. Both eland and rhebuck are depicted in two colours, mainly red and white, even though they are more grey than red. Depictions of men with rhebuck heads are shamans. It is known that shamans with rhebuck heads controlled eland and harnessed their power to enter trance and to perform their various tasks, including rain-making.             Hot Fire I
            NASMUS RSA HOF1 19
            NASMUS RSA HOF1 19
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-HOF1-19.jpg · Item · 09/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Antelope, human figures, sticks, strange shapes. Hot Fire I
            NASMUS RSA HOF1 23
            NASMUS RSA HOF1 23
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-HOF1-23.jpg · Item · 09/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Rhebuck, human figures, sticks, fly whisks.

            Rhebuck is one of the antelope that are most frequently depicted, after the eland. The rhebuck is comparable to the eland because it is often painted in shaded polychrome. Both eland and rhebuck are depicted in two colours, mainly red and white, even though they are more grey than red. Depictions of men with rhebuck heads are shamans. It is known that shamans with rhebuck heads controlled eland and harnessed their power to enter trance and to perform their various tasks, including rain-making.             Hot Fire I