Halstone I

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              239 Images & Collections results for Halstone I

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              RARI RSA HAE1 106
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-106.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
              Part of RARI
              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 107
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-107.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
              Part of RARI
              Snakes, human figures, eland, interaction with a feature of the rock face, red and white lines, zoomorphic figures, strange shapes, flecks, macrodots.

              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.
              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 108
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-108.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 109
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-109.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 10H
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-10H.jpg · Item · 19/04/2002
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              Hollmann, Jeremy
              RARI RSA HAE1 11
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-11.jpg · Item · 14/04/2002
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              Pearce, David
              RARI RSA HAE1 110
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-110.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
              Part of RARI
              Running figures, zoomorphic figures bows and arrows. Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 111
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-111.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Rhebuck.

              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.
              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 112
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-112.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Antelope. Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 113
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-113.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
              Part of RARI
              Rhebuck.

              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.
              Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 114
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-114.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Rhebuck. Mallen, Lara
              RARI RSA HAE1 115
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-HAE1-115.jpg · Item · 27/01/2005
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              Spears. Mallen, Lara