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            46 Images & Collections results for Ficksburg

            RARI LEE RSA BEI1 47
            RARI LEE RSA BEI1 47
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-BEI1-47.jpg · Item · 01/11/1990
            Part of Lee, Neil
            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.             Berlin I 91
            RARI LEE RSA BEI1 7
            RARI LEE RSA BEI1 7
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-BEI1-7.jpg · Item · 01/11/1990
            Part of Lee, Neil
            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.             Berlin I 91
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 15
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 15
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-BSC1-15.jpg · Item · 01/01/1988
            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.             Boschfontein I 934
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 16
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 16
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-BSC1-16.jpg · Item · 01/01/1988
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Rhinos.

            Rhinos and hippos are more common as engravings than paintings. Both the black and white rhinos are represented.
            Some are so carefully engraved so that the characteristic folds of their skin are depicted.             Boschfontein I 934
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 19
            RARI LEE RSA BSC1 19
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-BSC1-19.jpg · Item · 01/01/1988
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Attenuated figures (elongated figures). Boschfontein I 934