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            91 Images & Collections results for Nkandla

            RSA FAM2 1
            RSA FAM2 1
            NMSA NMSA-RSA-FAM2-1.jpg · Item · 1972
            Part of Natal Museum
            Flying creatures (alites) and flying bucks (alites). Farm II 5 10859
            RSA FAM2 2
            RSA FAM2 2
            NMSA NMSA-RSA-FAM2-2.jpg · Item · 1972
            Part of Natal Museum
            Flywhisks.

            Depictions of flywhisks in rock art are quite common. They are important accessories for the trance dance in which they are used to keep arrows of sickness at bay.Paintings of them are a good indication of trance.             Farm II 5 10859
            RSA MHB1 1
            RSA MHB1 1
            NMSA NMSA-RSA-MHB1-1.jpg · Item · 1972
            Part of Natal Museum
            Bags and recumbent figures.

            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.             Mkholombe I
            RSA MHB3 2
            RSA MHB3 2
            NMSA NMSA-RSA-MHB3-2.jpg · Item · 1972
            Part of Natal Museum
            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.             Mkholombe III