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            553 Images & Collections results for Northern Cape

            JDC RSA SPN1 39R
            JDC RSA SPN1 39R
            JDC JDC-JDC-RSA-SPN1-39R.jpg · Item
            Part of Deacon, Janette
            Arrows.

            Depiction of arrows, whether they be real or not (arrows of sickness) are quite common in rock art.
            Arrows of sickness are said to be small, invisible arrows that malevolent shamans shoot into people whom they wish to make ill.
            The arrow points were traditionally made of bone and later of iron. Each point is distinctive; hunters recognise their own and others’ arrows. This is important because an animal belongs to the owner of the fatal arrow, and that person has the responsibility of distributing the meat equitably amongst all the people in the camp.The poison for which the San are known is placed behind the point so as not to blunt it. The poison was made from snake venom, certain plants and beetle larvae. There is no known antidote, and the San are extremely careful indeed to avoid it getting into their eyes and skin. Men carry their arrows in quivers.             Springbok Oog I 27
            JHH 01 1088H
            JHH 01 1088H
            JHH JHH-JHH-01-1088H.jpg · Item
            Part of Hone, John
            Birds.

            Birds are commonly depicted in rock art. Some of the depictions of birds are shown swooping down on animals or standing next to dead antelope. In San mythology, flight is a wide spread metaphor for trance experience due to the sensations of rising up and floating that are part of some altered states of consciousness produced by the universal human nervous system.             Groenfontein I 96
            RARI 03 2R
            RARI 03 2R
            RARI RARI-RARI-03-2R.jpg · Item · 01/06/2005
            Part of RARI
            The stones, from which these redrawings were made from, are housed at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Baboons. Dunn Stones.
            Acc. no. 2004.42.2
            Acc. no. 2004.142.1
            Baboons.             Voorveldt, W.
            RARI PJV 04 594
            RARI PJV 04 594
            PJV PJV-RARI-PJV-04-594.jpg · Item
            Part of Vinnicombe, Patricia
            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.             Block AA (KU.F 2-1) I 689
            RARI RSA DRK1 1P
            RARI RSA DRK1 1P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-DRK1-1P.jpg · Item · 04/2002
            Part of RARI
            Drie Koppen I 124
            RARI RSA DRK1 2P
            RARI RSA DRK1 2P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-DRK1-2P.jpg · Item · 04/2002
            Part of RARI
            Drie Koppen I 124
            RARI RSA DRK1 3P
            RARI RSA DRK1 3P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-DRK1-3P.jpg · Item · 04/2002
            Part of RARI
            Drie Koppen I 124
            RARI RSA DRK1 4P
            RARI RSA DRK1 4P
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-DRK1-4P.jpg · Item · 04/2002
            Part of RARI
            Drie Koppen I 124