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            7655 Images & Collections results for Maclear

            RARI RSA TYN2 62
            RARI RSA TYN2 62
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-62.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Red hartebeest. Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 61
            RARI RSA TYN2 61
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-61.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 60
            RARI RSA TYN2 60
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-60.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Red hartebeest.. Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 6
            RARI RSA TYN2 6
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-6.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 5T
            RARI RSA TYN2 5T
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-5T.jpg · Item · 11/05/2006
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 5H
            RARI RSA TYN2 5H
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-5H.jpg · Item · 26/04/2004
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            Blundell, Geoffrey
            RARI RSA TYN2 5D
            RARI RSA TYN2 5D
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-5D.jpg · Item · 07/12/2005
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 59
            RARI RSA TYN2 59
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-59.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 58
            RARI RSA TYN2 58
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-58.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 57
            RARI RSA TYN2 57
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-57.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 56
            RARI RSA TYN2 56
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-56.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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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.             Mount Tyndall II
            RARI RSA TYN2 55
            RARI RSA TYN2 55
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-55.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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            Mount Tyndall II