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              RARI HPC 01 33HC
              RARI HPC 01 33HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              This scene is extremely faint in the original making copy work a slow and laborious procedure. Digging Sticks.
              P22 pager F131.

              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.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 34HC
              RARI HPC 01 34HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              This weathered top of a large fallen rock contains a scene with Vaal rhebok. There are also three human figures and a feline depicted and in the bottom right hand corner there is a small arrow. Of interest are the four strokes, which point towards the lower most bucks. One of these looks as though it is a stick by the figure in front of the buck.

              Arrows and felines.
              P23 pager F133.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 35HC
              RARI HPC 01 35HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Only a few figures were painted on the front face of the same rock, a man and six antelope. Two of the buck display a delicate turn of the head.
              P24 pager F134.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 36HC
              RARI HPC 01 36HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A group of running human figures in monochrome and bichrome. The swift movement of a small animal, painted on the top right has been depicted in a similar way.
              P25 pager F136.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 37HC
              RARI HPC 01 37HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A human figure with a battle-axe as used by the blacks is running after an animal. Too much of the painting has broken off to be able to identify what type of an animal it might have been. Axes. P26 pager F137. Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 38HC
              RARI HPC 01 38HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A small, crude figure with extremities of disproportioned sizes.
              P27 pager F138.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 3HC
              RARI HPC 01 3HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A considerably exfoliated eland in shaded yellow and white.
              P3 pager F77.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 48HC
              RARI HPC 01 48HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A shaded polychrome eland on the left and the monochrome remains of two other antelopes on the right. When the paintings were discovered in 1965, water was flowing directly beneath them, but after torrential rains the following year, the river changed its course and now flows a few metres away from the rock face.
              P38 pager F159.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 49HC
              RARI HPC 01 49HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              There are only a few figures painted in RSA WHA1 and due to the moist conditions in this shelter, it is interesting that they have survived at all.

              On this panel, are the remains of some antelope, a shaded Bushbuck near the bottom and next to this there is a bow. Two sets of strokes in the centre may be arrows sticking out of quivers. A man on the right is wearing animal ears on his head, probably part of a cap.
              P39 pager F160.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 4HC
              RARI HPC 01 4HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Remains of a running human figure wearing a triangular apron.
              Aprons.
              P4 pager F78.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 50HC
              RARI HPC 01 50HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              The first of the three large friezes painted at RSA BTH1 and includes a virtually complete spectrum of the typical Bushmen art in the Drakensberg. There are numerous shaded polychrome animals, tall figures wearing long karosses, figures wearing antelope masks and carrying flywhisks and examples of the penis additament etc.

              Of particular note is the eland painted as seen form the back with its head turned to the right and, further on to the right an eland, painted as seen from the front looking straight out of the rock face.

              Many of the human figures are so elongated that they give the impression that they might have been modelled on early black hunting parties visiting the area. On the other hand, however, their clothing and artefacts are typical of the Bushmen. A really satisfactory explanation for this elongation has still to be found and it has also been suggested that the Bushmen artists deliberately exaggerated because of their desires not to be considered small. Whatever the explanation, the artistic effect is dramatic and provides an excellent contrast to the shaded polychrome eland.
              P40 pager F162.               Botha’s Shelter I