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              RARI RSA TYN2 98
              RARI RSA TYN2 98
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-98.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              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 RSA TYN2 9
              RARI RSA TYN2 9
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-9.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              Digging sticks. Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 8
              RARI RSA TYN2 8
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-8.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              Eland.

              The eland was the first animal that the San trickster deity, /Kaggen created and it remained his favourite.
              The eland is the largest of southern African antelope and is much desired for its meat and fat. The San say that all other animals are like servants to the eland.

              The importance of this animal is shown in the great variety of postures and perspectives. It is depicted running with tail outstretched, with uplifted head smelling the wind, and upside down, presumably dead. The eland is also depicted from the front or from the back, and even from above.

              The eland appears in four important San rituals it is the most carefully depicted antelope in both rock paintings and engravings: Trance dance, boy's first kill, girl's puberty and marriage. It is believed that eland fat contains a lot of potency and in a trance dance shamans aspire to possess eland potency.               Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 79
              RARI RSA TYN2 79
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-79.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              Running figures, phallus, bows and arrows 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 53
              RARI RSA TYN2 53
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-53.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              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
              RARI RSA TYN2 37
              RARI RSA TYN2 37
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-37.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              Fingerpainted, strange shapes, Type 2B, cattle Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 104
              RARI RSA TYN2 104
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-104.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              Human figures, pointing figures, head-dresses, bows and arrows Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 103
              RARI RSA TYN2 103
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-103.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              Birds. Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 100
              RARI RSA TYN2 100
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-100.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              Human figures, head-dresses, karosses, bags, red hartebeest, quivers Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 10
              RARI RSA TYN2 10
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-10.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              Human figures, pointing figures, bows, quivers Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 1
              RARI RSA TYN2 1
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-1.jpg · Item · 01/04/2002
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              Rhebuck, attenuation

              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