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RARI LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-ABB1-20.jpg
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RARI LEE RSA ABB1 20
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Ground Material: Photographic film
Original size: 35mm
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(18/02/2003)
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Gender: M
Nationality: South African
Created by: azizo
Created on: 18/02/2003
Nationality: South African
Created by: azizo
Created on: 18/02/2003
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Donated by: Lee, Neil
Date donated to: 17/08/1995
Date donated to: 17/08/1995
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Birds and rhebuck (reedbuck).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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- English
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Medium format: 35mm Slide
Original size: 35mm
Original size: 35mm
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