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              RARI HPC 01 124HC
              RARI HPC 01 124HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              An isolated and enigmatic animal. It is not unusual to find animals as though approaching a crack in the rock surface where they may disappear or, alternatively, emerge from such a crack.
              P101 pager F302.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 125HC
              RARI HPC 01 125HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Painted high up on the wall are two shaded polychrome eland in deep maroon and white. One is depicted in a browsing attitude; the other one appears to be grazing.
              P102 pager F303.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 126HC
              RARI HPC 01 126HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              The scenes from RSA JUN1 are many and varied. This particular colourful scene is very faint in the original but here you see it very much as it must have been seen by those who were contemporary with the painter.

              The scene demonstrates the sophisticated nature of the painting techniques and the way of life depicted by the artist. Many of the figures in this painting have elaborate body paint and decoration with ostrich eggshell beads. The facial stripes are typical of a custom spread throughout the country but whether the stripes represent paint or scarification is still open to question.

              The flying creature (flying creatures) toward the bottom of the paintings may represent either the spirit of a dead bushman or the concept of aerial travel by the spirit of a medicine man (i.e. Shaman) in trance.

              There is a particularly delightful painting of a bird doing a nosedive with a long thin line, beautifully drawn, indicating its direction of travel.

              Birds and flying creatures.
              P103 pager F306-309.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 127HC
              RARI HPC 01 127HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A red man with animal ears at the centre top. A little further down are two yellow men superimposed by a white man and a small white buck. A second white buck of similar style follows the first one.

              A large man in a kaross stands at the bottom left. He wears animal ears on his headdress; multiple head strings around his neck and some more beads below his knees. The two bichrome men at the far right wear beads and penis decorations.

              A thin, white man is depicted between them. In the centre stands a crudely painted animal and four bichrome antelope in various sizes. A monochrome white bushbuck is painted at the bottom right. In the centre of the panel and above the horizontal crack are rows of oval dots. Karosses.
              P104 pager F310.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 128HC
              RARI HPC 01 128HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              At the left, a monochrome hartebeest overlies a bichrome man with animal ears, arms and leg rings, a stick, quiver and arrows. An unusually rounded eland was fitted into the pointed end of a small panel. It is joined by a faint, serpent-like line. At the centre right is a group of monochrome humans, three of them recognisable as women. There are a few other human figures on this panel, and in the centre, two small eland.

              It is rare to find a depiction of an eland as small as this and still rarer to find a monochrome rendering. Most of the eland paintings are relatively large and nearly all are executed in two or more colours. Quivers, bows and arrows.
              P105 pager F313.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 129HC
              RARI HPC 01 129HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Remains of five monochrome human figures in red.
              P106 pager F315.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 12HC
              RARI HPC 01 12HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              This section of RSA SEB1 contains a row of women in the top right hand corner. They are super-imposed on two bucks. At the bottom of the panel are some eland in shaded polychrome, one of which has its hooves depicted in a twisted perspective. There is a ladder in the bottom left hand corner of the frieze.

              Towards the bottom of the painting in the centre is a kneeling figure with animal head and horns, which Harald Pager describes as ales or 'flying creatures' of mystical significance.

              Artefacts carried by two figures which Harald Pager describes as heavy clubs may in fact, be pangas, which were often used for hunting and hamstringing elephants.
              P8 pager F87-88-&-89.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 130HC
              RARI HPC 01 130HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              This monochrome figure is the only one that was found painted on the crumbling surface of a strata of red mudstone.
              P107 pager F316.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 131HC
              RARI HPC 01 131HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              At the top lies a dead Eland with white lines emanating from its body. A calf is sheltering next to the dead animal. These two depictions and another Eland further down are shaded paintings in yellow and white and overlie older figures in red. A group of running bichrome men in the centre are superimposed on two small bichrome eland. There is a group of five slender humans at the right and two others are painted near the bottom of the panel. Small buck are depicted at the centre left and in the right bottom corner. On the right of the panel are six figures painted in ankle-long karosses and three others in medium-length karosses. The clumsy animal in bright red in the centre of the panel belongs to the period of 'finger-style'.
              P108 pager F318-319.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 132HC
              RARI HPC 01 132HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              The remains of a bichrome eland and three, minute animals; two of them with soft shading. Between them are two fragmentary remains of the other paintings and a human figure.
              P109 pager F320-321.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 133HC
              RARI HPC 01 133HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A man in search of honey climbs up a set of ropes towards the honeycombs. The dots that are painted around this probably depict bees. Lines and shapes of obscure meaning are painted along this little scene. Ten other human figures are painted on this panel, among them a woman who holds out an arm in the direction of a running child. The unusual colour scheme of red and black was used for a small eland near the bottom.
              P110 pager F322.               RARI