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              RARI HPC 01 62HC
              RARI HPC 01 62HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-62HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              One of the two main panels at RSA BTH1.
              P43 pager F187 - 188.

              Apart from the beautiful polychrome eland, in almost every conceivable attitude, including frontal and back views, this panel includes a number of particularly interesting individual items.
              For example:
              1. Low down at the left hand side, a series of concentric semi-circles that represents honeycombs. Honeycombs take up this form when not confined to a hive or hole in a rock. The honey was particularly significant to the Bushmen, both as a source of sweetness and the basis for an alcoholic drink.

              2. Several 'flying creatures' or alites as Harald Pager named them. There is a very unusual example near the top of the panel. These may represent the spirits of dead Bushmen/eland/medicine-men who have achieved a state of trance and whose spirits have temporarily left their bodies.

              3. Two large 'bristle bulls' as named by Harald Pager, facing each other, head to head, low down to right centre of the panel. Harald Pager considered these to be mythological creatures but it is also possible to interpret them as two old bull eland confronting each other.

              4. A baboon-like creature of mythological significance, low down in the centre of the panel. Such a creature is dealt with in the folklore of the Bushmen as recorded by Dr. W.H.I. Bleek.

              A detailed analysis of every item in the paintings is contained in Harald Pager's book 'Ndedema'.

              Many of the concepts of the Bushmen are also dealt with in the book 'Rock Art of Southern Africa' by H.C. Woodhouse, the compiler of this catalogue.               Botha’s Shelter I
              RARI HPC 01 63HC
              RARI HPC 01 63HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-63HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              One of the two main panels at RSA BTH1.

              Apart from the beautiful polychrome eland, in almost every conceivable attitude, including frontal and back views, this panel includes a number of particularly interesting individual items.
              For example:
              1. Low down at the left hand side, a series of concentric semi-circles that represents honeycombs. Honeycombs take up this form when not confined to a hive or hole in a rock. The honey was particularly significant to the Bushmen, both as a source of sweetness and the basis for an alcoholic drink.

              2. Several 'flying creatures' or alites as Harald Pager named them. There is a very unusual example near the top of the panel. These may represent the spirits of dead Bushmen/eland/medicine-men who have achieved a state of trance and whose spirits have temporarily left their bodies.

              3. Two large 'bristle bulls' as named by Harald Pager, facing each other, head to head, low down to right centre of the panel. Harald Pager considered these to be mythological creatures but it is also possible to interpret them as two old bull eland confronting each other.

              4. A baboon-like creature of mythological significance, low down in the centre of the panel. Such a creature is dealt with in the folklore of the Bushmen as recorded by Dr. W.H.I. Bleek.

              A detailed analysis of every item in the paintings is contained in Harald Pager's book 'Ndedema'.

              Many of the concepts of the Bushmen are also dealt with in the book 'Rock Art of Southern Africa' by H.C. Woodhouse, the compiler of this catalogue.
              P43 pager F188 - 189.               Botha’s Shelter I
              RARI HPC 01 64HC
              RARI HPC 01 64HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-64HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              One of the two main panels at RSA BTH1.

              Apart from the beautiful polychrome eland, in almost every conceivable attitude, including frontal and back views, this panel includes a number of particularly interesting individual items.
              For example:
              1. Low down at the left hand side, a series of concentric semi-circles that represents honeycombs. Honeycombs take up this form when not confined to a hive or hole in a rock. The honey was particularly significant to the Bushmen, both as a source of sweetness and the basis for an alcoholic drink.

              2. Several 'flying creatures' or alites as Harald Pager named them. There is a very unusual example near the top of the panel. These may represent the spirits of dead Bushmen/eland/medicine-men who have achieved a state of trance and whose spirits have temporarily left their bodies.

              3. Two large 'bristle bulls' as named by Harald Pager, facing each other, head to head, low down to right centre of the panel. Harald Pager considered these to be mythological creatures but it is also possible to interpret them as two old bull eland confronting each other.

              4. A baboon-like creature of mythological significance, low down in the centre of the panel. Such a creature is dealt with in the folklore of the Bushmen as recorded by Dr. W.H.I. Bleek.

              A detailed analysis of every item in the paintings is contained in Harald Pager's book 'Ndedema'.

              Many of the concepts of the Bushmen are also dealt with in the book 'Rock Art of Southern Africa' by H.C. Woodhouse, the compiler of this catalogue. Attenuated figures (elongated figures).
              P43 pager F189.               Botha’s Shelter I
              RARI HPC 01 66HC
              RARI HPC 01 66HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-66HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              This part of the frieze at RSA BTH1 and has been somewhat spoilt by the flow of water but there are many interesting figures left, including one which appears to be carrying a hoe with another similar artefact stuck into the armband of the other arm. Pager described these as 'bulbous objects', but hoes were objects of trade during the early Iron Age and, like pangas, were used for hamstringing elephants. The Bushmen were renowned as elephant hunters and the ivory was used for barter.

              Several of the eland at the top of this panel are unfinished. It would seem that the white of the necks and legs was not completed.

              The humanoid figure with the wing is an unusual example of the ales or 'flying creatures'. The main shaded polychrome eland at the bottom is an outstanding example of the Bushman art.
              P44 pager F196 - 197.               Botha’s Shelter I
              RARI HPC 01 67HC
              RARI HPC 01 67HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-67HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              This part of the frieze at RSA BTH1 and has been somewhat spoilt by the flow of water but there are many interesting figures left, including one which appears to be carrying a hoe with another similar artefact stuck into the armband of the other arm. Pager described these as 'bulbous objects', but hoes were objects of trade during the early Iron Age and, like pangas, were used for hamstringing elephants. The Bushmen were renowned as elephant hunters and the ivory was used for barter.

              Several of the eland at the top of this panel are unfinished. It would seem that the white of the necks and legs was not completed.

              The humanoid figure with the wing is an unusual example of the ales or 'flying creatures'. The main shaded polychrome eland at the bottom is an outstanding example of the Bushman art. Attenuated figures (elongated figures)
              P44 pager F197 - 198.               Botha’s Shelter I
              RARI HPC 01 68HC
              RARI HPC 01 68HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-68HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              The remains of an animal, a weighted digging stick and on the right, a human figure that appears to be playing a musical bow placed on a resonator.
              Digging sticks. Musical Instruments.
              P45 pager F201.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 69HC
              RARI HPC 01 69HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-69HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              Standing and running human figures, few dots and a few animals appear on the left. The back of the lower most bichrome eland has been fitted into a depression of the rock, which has just the right contour for this. Natural lineaments of the rock were, however, rarely taken advantage of in the art of the region.

              In the centre are the remains of a row of human figures and below them the hindquarters of a feline and another human figure lying down. Beneath these is a reclining buck superimposed by a stooping man. On the right of these are two bowmen in action and two other human figures with unnaturally long necks. Two men on the right wear yellow karosses. They are the only karrosses depicted in this colour in the whole of Ndedema Gorge.
              P46 pager F202-203.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 6HC
              RARI HPC 01 6HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-6HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              This small panel, hidden by bushes, shows a jumping eland and a running man. Both are painted in white and are extremely faded. Details of these figures are only visible at certain hours of the afternoon when sunlight falls on the shelter floor. The posture of the man, which shows his legs in 'split action', is thought to depict the long pace when running at full speed.
              P6 pager F80.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 70HC
              RARI HPC 01 70HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-70HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              Recognisable among the remains are two legs of an antelope at the top, two antelope in a rear view superimposed on a yellow antelope. A splendidly painted buck in red and white, an eland, hindquarters of two other buck, three small human figures, and two other large ones. The one at the right holds a curved stick and wears an apron and a penis ornament.

              Aprons.
              P47 pager F208.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 71HC
              RARI HPC 01 71HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-71HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              At the top of the panel are two sets of meandering lines representing game tracks. One set is painted in red, the other in yellow, and two small men, both holding sticks run along them. A red Vaal rhebok stands at the end of the red line and a yellow one at the end of the yellow line. A characteristic of the Vaal rhebok is that, when running or being chased, they will suddenly stop and look back. This peculiarity has been marvellously observed by the artist who depicted the red buck in this enquiring attitude. A grey and white ostrich has been depicted near the Vaal rhebok. Another set of lines, further down, have a close resemblance to a river map. They are drawn over five small human figures in various attitudes. Right beside it is a natural depression in the rock, which has been outlined in red paint to depict an enclosure of rock shelter. Within it, three humans sit around a fire, and a ladder, together with other objects, lie at the back.
              P48 pager F211-212.               Sorcerer’s Rock I
              RARI HPC 01 72HC
              RARI HPC 01 72HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-72HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              On the side of a fallen rock there are the following figures: Eight antelope, a man with sticks and another human figure painted with white stripes, a set of two lines and a few paint remains. The lowest figures are 20cm above the ground.
              P49 pager F213.               Sorcerer’s Rock I