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            69 Images & Collections results for Ladybrand

            RSA OLD1 16H
            RSA OLD1 16H
            RARI RARI-RSA-OLD1-16H.jpg · Item · 24/02/2005
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            Eland.

            The eland was the first animal that the San trickster deity, /Kaggen created and it remained his favourite.
            The eland is the largest of southern African antelope and is much desired for its meat and fat. The San say that all other animals are like servants to the eland.

            The importance of this animal is shown in the great variety of postures and perspectives. It is depicted running with tail outstretched, with uplifted head smelling the wind, and upside down, presumably dead. The eland is also depicted from the front or from the back, and even from above.

            The eland appears in four important San rituals it is the most carefully depicted antelope in both rock paintings and engravings: Trance dance, boy's first kill, girl's puberty and marriage. It is believed that eland fat contains a lot of potency and in a trance dance shamans aspire to possess eland potency.             Hollmann, Jeremy
            RARI RSA TRI1 6P
            RARI RSA TRI1 6P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-6P.jpg · Item
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            Digging sticks. RARI
            RARI RSA TRI1 4P
            RARI RSA TRI1 4P
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            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.             RARI
            RARI RSA TRI1 4
            RARI RSA TRI1 4
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-4.jpg · Item · 17/09/1992
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            Digging Sticks Ouzman, Sven
            RARI RSA TRI1 3P
            RARI RSA TRI1 3P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-3P.jpg · Item
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            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.             RARI
            RARI RSA TRI1 2P
            RARI RSA TRI1 2P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-2P.jpg · Item
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            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.             RARI
            RARI RSA TRI1 2
            RARI RSA TRI1 2
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-2.jpg · Item · 17/09/1992
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            Ouzman, Sven
            RARI RSA TRI1 1P
            RARI RSA TRI1 1P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-1P.jpg · Item
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            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.             RARI
            RARI RSA TRI1 14
            RARI RSA TRI1 14
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TRI1-14.jpg · Item · 17/09/1992
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            Digging sticks and steatopygia (large buttocks). Ouzman, Sven
            RARI RSA ORG1 38
            RARI RSA ORG1 38
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-ORG1-38.jpg · Item · 14/04/1998
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            Digging sticks. Smith, Benjamin (Dr.)