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              RARI RSA TYN2 51
              RARI RSA TYN2 51
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-51.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              Human figures, recumbent figures, streamers Mount Tyndall II
              RARI RSA TYN2 52
              RARI RSA TYN2 52
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-52.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              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 54
              RARI RSA TYN2 54
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-54.jpg · Item · 26/06/2004
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              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
              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 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 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 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 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 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 5T
              RARI RSA TYN2 5T
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-TYN2-5T.jpg · Item · 11/05/2006
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              Mount Tyndall II