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              RSA MAI1 413
              RSA MAI1 413
              NMSA NMSA-RSA-MAI1-413.jpg · Item · 1992
              Part of Natal Museum
              Cattle.

              Depictions of cattle in rock art are common in some regions. Often they are accompanied by Iron Age people carrying broad-bladed iron spears, shields and knobkerries.               Main Caves I
              RARI RSA MAI1 9R
              RARI RSA MAI1 9R
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-9R.jpg · Item · 01/09/1988
              Part of RARI
              Snakes and therianthropes. Published in 'Fragile Heritage' page 207. This panel is known as Snake Rock. Mclean, Bernice
              RARI RSA MAI1 8R
              RARI RSA MAI1 8R
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-8R.jpg · Item
              Part of RARI
              Bows and arrows. Eland. Unknown
              RARI RSA MAI1 61
              RARI RSA MAI1 61
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-61.jpg · Item · 13/05/1995
              Part of RARI
              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.               Main Caves I
              RARI RSA MAI1 37
              RARI RSA MAI1 37
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-37.jpg · Item · 13/05/1995
              Part of RARI
              Snakes.

              Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
              Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.               Main Caves I
              RARI RSA MAI1 36
              RARI RSA MAI1 36
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-36.jpg · Item · 13/05/1995
              Part of RARI
              Snakes.

              Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
              Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.               Main Caves I
              RARI RSA MAI1 199
              RARI RSA MAI1 199
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-199.jpg · Item
              Part of RARI
              Rhebuck. Main Caves I
              RARI RSA MAI1 11R
              RARI RSA MAI1 11R
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MAI1-11R.jpg · Item · 01/10/1988
              Part of RARI
              Eland. Mclean, Bernice
              RARI LEE RSA MAI1 23
              RARI LEE RSA MAI1 23
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-MAI1-23.jpg · Item · 01/01/1994
              Part of Lee, Neil
              Bags.

              Bushman beliefs suggest that bags had a special significance beyond everyday use. Their relation to trance metaphors is illustrated in San mythology, where parallels were drawn between getting into a skin bag and getting into an animal- that is, taking on its potency. Therefore, bags painted next to a dance or by themselves, are probably an indication of a trance experience.               Main Caves I
              NMSA SNP 01 9HC
              NMSA SNP 01 9HC
              SNP SNP-NMSA-SNP-01-9HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Parry, Sian
              A76b. Clapping female figures and sticks. Main Caves I
              NMSA SNP 01 8HC
              NMSA SNP 01 8HC
              SNP SNP-NMSA-SNP-01-8HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Parry, Sian
              A75b. Antelopes, arrows and borrows and karosses. Main Caves I
              NMSA SNP 01 7HC
              NMSA SNP 01 7HC
              SNP SNP-NMSA-SNP-01-7HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Parry, Sian
              Eland, therianthropes and karosses. Main Caves I