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            67 Images & Collections results for Estcourt

            RARI RSA BAM1 1R
            RARI RSA BAM1 1R
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BAM1-1R.jpg · Item
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            Publisged in 'Images of Power', page: 98-99. Rain animals.

            Rain-making was one of the San shamans’ most important tasks. The southern San thought of the rain as an animal. This animal was an amorphous quadruped that generally resembled a hippopotamus, but it could also look like an ox or an antelope. A male rain-animal, or rain-bull, was associated with the frightening thunderstorm that bellowed, stirred up the dust, and sometimes killed people with its lightning. The female rain animal was associated with soft, soaking rains.             RARI
            RARI RSA BAM1 3R
            RARI RSA BAM1 3R
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BAM1-3R.jpg · Item · 27/06/1985
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            Human figures surround a rain-animal.
            Publisged in 'Images of Power', page: 98-99.             RARI
            RARI RSA BAR1 10R
            RARI RSA BAR1 10R
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            Head-dress. Barnes Shelter I
            RARI RSA BAR1 11R
            RARI RSA BAR1 11R
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            Eland. Barnes Shelter I
            RARI RSA BAR1 14R
            RARI RSA BAR1 14R
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BAR1-14R.jpg · Item · 02/02/1986
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            Therianthropes. Karosses. Elephants. Bags. Barnes Shelter I
            RARI RSA BAR1 2R
            RARI RSA BAR1 2R
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-BAR1-2R.jpg · Item · 02/02/1996
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            Bees. Barnes Shelter I
            RARI RSA BAR1 3R
            RARI RSA BAR1 3R
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            Published in 'Images of Power' page 115 (f 53e). Digging sticks.

            The most distinctive item of women’s equipment is the digging stick. Sometimes these were weighted with bored stones. A hole was laboriously bored through a stone, and they were fixed onto the stick with wooden wedges. They made digging in hard ground easier.Bored stones are not used in the Kalahari, where suitable stones are rare and the sand is comparatively soft.

            Examples vary greatly in size and have been found all over Southern Africa. Bushman beliefs suggest that digging sticks had a special significance beyond everyday use. It is believed that when a /Xam woman wished to communicate with the shamans of the game, and possibly dead shamans, she would beat upon the ground with a bored stone from her digging stick. Therefore, digging sticks were used to contact the supernatural world, which is the main purpose of the trance dance.             Barnes Shelter I