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              Part of Pager, Harald
              In the open gallery (which form the right part of the shelter), the paintings have very little protection from the sun and rain and nearly all of them are severely damaged. On this panel, an umber of human figures, equipment and remains of animal figures are still recognisable. At the right, a dead eland is lying with its hind legs sticking up. Four bags are painted nearby.
              P77 pager F258.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              While only a few painted flakes have remained on the upper part of this portion of the wall, a small group of less damaged figures can be seen at the bottom, a few human figures and two beautiful little bucks, all superimposed by a larger eland. Two remains of small bichrome eland can be recognised at the right.
              P78 pager F260.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A bichrome eland at the top right, six human figures in a row on the left, below them there is a pair of bushbuck and still further down, there is a group of running men. The way in which the number of bodies, arms and legs are accommodated in this tight composition is certainly an artistic achievement. There are also four Vaal rhebok, an aardvark {Aardvarks (earth pigs)}and other animals as well as a few remains of human figures. At the right, a human runs away from a feline (felines). Here, the hunter becomes the hunted. This scene suggested the name RSA LER1, although it is uncertain whether the animal is a leopard or a lion.
              P79 pager F261.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A shaded polychrome eland painted on a smooth part of the rock face at the right. It overlies another animal, and a small buck is depicted below it. Higher up are the remains of a second shaded polychrome eland and a human figure. At the bottom left are two bowmen in action and part of the body of an animal.
              P80 pager F262.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Among the last few paint remains in the shelter, a running bushbuck is superimposed on a shaded polychrome eland. Fragments of human figures are recognisable near the bottom.
              P81 pager F264.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              The rock face of this little shelter is coarse, but on a smoother area a number of Vaal Rhebok and haartebeest were painted on top of each other. On the left, a human figure in white with red stripes touches a small buck that bleeds from the mouth.

              Near the top, another buck is bleeding from the mouth and from two wounds. A hunter, nearby is about to shoot an arrow. Towards the right, two men wrestle with each other and ales with long thin streamers are painted across them. A shaded polychrome eland on the right has incongruently thick hindlegs.

              On the left hand side of this panel, the smoother surfaces were also used in preference to the coarser surfaces. Two reedbuck face each other. The right one overlies a small buck while a human figure with a large animal head is painted above it. Three other human figures and paint remains are nearby.

              Near the bottom, two small buck, a larger antelope and ten small human figures are painted while a group of five Vaal Rhebok and an Eland are on the right. All the latter animals are painted in pale orange colours.

              Arrows.
              P82 pager F267-268.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              The hindquarters of a running eland in red, white and black.
              P83 pager F269.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A man wearing an apron and carrying a bow across his shoulders is the only figure painted in RSA SIT1. Aprons.
              P84 pager F271.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A variety of animals and human figures. The four cloaked figures are part of the 'great procession' illustrated elsewhere. In the top left hand corner, the eland bull painted with a white outline is unusual for this geographical area.

              There are three exceptionally tiny figures on the body of the shaded eland. The yellow and orange colours tend to mark the later painting styles.
              P7 pager F85.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A red, monochrome baboon (baboons), painted well above the panel depicted in Pager 89.
              P88 pager F280.

              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.               RARI
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              On the left hand side of the panel, the big hunt is on. Men with clubs chase a huge troop of baboons, catching and killing some of them. Three of the humans have grotesquely elongated legs and one of the baboons is depicted unusually large. The whole hunting scene is painted in black, but a few red figures, which do not belong to this composition, were painted on the same rock face.

              To the right of this scene are a few more figures belonging to the baboon hunt. At the centre bottom, a bag, two digging sticks and four other human figures are painted in black. One of these human figures is a woman wearing a black apron and holding a digging stick. At the top right are six human figures depicted in red.

              Aprons and digging sticks.
              P89 pager F281.               RARI