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            NASMUS RSA WIN1 17
            NASMUS RSA WIN1 17
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-WIN1-17.jpg · Item · 27/06/1997
            Part of National Museum
            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.             Wintershoek I 41