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RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-MEL8-2R.jpg
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RARI RSA MEL8 2R
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Ground Material: Drafting film
Original size: 19cm x 15cm
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Brief description of art: Snakes.
Site continues to flake badly-it is a priority to complete the tracing.
One sample taken for dating on the 17/02/2005.
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Published in 'Discovering Southern African Rock Art' by Lewis-Williams, J. D.1990. page 18. Baboons.
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.
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.
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Medium format: Ink
Original size: 19cm x 15cm
Original size: 19cm x 15cm
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