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              ABB CCL 004
              ABB CCL 004
              RARI ABB CCL 004 · Document
              RARI
              ABB CCL 006
              ABB CCL 006
              RARI ABB CCL 006 · Document
              RARI
              IZI HT 01 1HC
              IZI HT 01 1HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-1HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              XXXVI. Human figures clapping, therianthropes, sticks and attenuated figures (elongated figures). Possible musical instruments. Orange Springs I 46
              IZI HT 01 8HC
              IZI HT 01 8HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-8HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              XXXVII. Attenuated figures (elongated figures) and sticks. Orange Springs I 46
              IZI HT 01 9HC
              IZI HT 01 9HC
              HT HT-IZI-HT-01-9HC.jpg · Item · Unknown
              Part of Tongue, Helen
              XXXII. Female figures, digging sticks and moths. Orange Springs I 46
              JDC RSA ORG1 10
              JDC RSA ORG1 10
              JDC JDC-JDC-RSA-ORG1-10.jpg · Item · 09/1993
              Part of Deacon, Janette
              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.               Orange Springs I 46