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            7655 Images & Collections results for Maclear

            RARI RSA WID1 5T
            RARI RSA WID1 5T
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-5T.jpg · Item · 16/06/2009
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 5P
            RARI RSA WID1 5P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-5P.jpg · Item · 1989
            Part of RARI
            Dowson, Thomas
            RARI RSA WID1 59
            RARI RSA WID1 59
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-59.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 58
            RARI RSA WID1 58
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-58.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 57
            RARI RSA WID1 57
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-57.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 56
            RARI RSA WID1 56
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-56.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Musical instruments. Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 54
            RARI RSA WID1 54
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-55.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 53
            RARI RSA WID1 53
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-53.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 52
            RARI RSA WID1 52
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-52.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 51
            RARI RSA WID1 51
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-51.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Human figures, head-dresses, bows, arrows, hunting, 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.             Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 50
            RARI RSA WID1 50
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-50.jpg · Item · 11/12/1998
            Part of RARI
            Wide Valley I
            RARI RSA WID1 5
            RARI RSA WID1 5
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-WID1-5.jpg · Item · 01/02/1989
            Part of RARI
            Human figures, animal on head of figure, clapping figures, musical
            instruments, head-dresses, quivers, arrows, karosses, bows, zoomorphic figures, bags.

            Different kinds of bows are depicted in San art. From curved, comparatively straight and triple curved there are a variety of bows found in rock art.

            Depiction of arrows, whether they be real or not (arrows of sickness) are quite common in rock art.
            Arrows of sickness are said to be small, invisible arrows that malevolent shamans shoot into people whom they wish to make ill. The arrow points were traditionally made of bone and later of iron. Each point is distinctive; hunters recognise their own and others’ arrows. This is important because an animal belongs to the owner of the fatal arrow, and that person has the responsibility of distributing the meat equitably amongst all the people in the camp.The poison for which the San are known is placed behind the point so as not to blunt it. The poison was made from snake venom, certain plants and beetle larvae. There is no known antidote, and the San are extremely careful indeed to avoid it getting into their eyes and skin. Men carry their arrows in quivers.             Wide Valley I