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            RARI LEE RSA TYN2 67
            RARI LEE RSA TYN2 67
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-TYN2-67.jpg · Item · 21/06/1974
            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.             Mount Tyndall II
            RARI LEE RSA TYN2 71
            RARI LEE RSA TYN2 71
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-TYN2-71.jpg · Item · 21/06/1974
            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.             Mount Tyndall II