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              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 17
              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 17
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-LEB1-17.jpg · Item · 01/01/1970
              Part of Lee, Neil
              Rhebuck (reedbuck).

              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.               Lee, Neil
              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 46
              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 46
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-LEB1-46.jpg · Item · 01/01/1970
              Part of Lee, Neil
              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.               Lee, Neil
              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 55
              RARI LEE RSA LEB1 55
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-LEB1-55.jpg · Item · 01/01/1970
              Part of Lee, Neil
              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.               Lee, Neil