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              RARI LEE RSA LOR1 31
              RARI LEE RSA LOR1 31
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-LOR1-31.jpg · Item · 01/12/1997
              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.               Longreach I