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              RARI RSA SEB1 1
              RARI RSA SEB1 1
              RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SEB1-1.jpg · Item · 09/04/1999
              Part of RARI
              Eland.

              The eland was the first animal that the San trickster deity, /Kaggen created and it remained his favourite.
              The eland is the largest of southern African antelope and is much desired for its meat and fat. The San say that all other animals are like servants to the eland.

              The importance of this animal is shown in the great variety of postures and perspectives. It is depicted running with tail outstretched, with uplifted head smelling the wind, and upside down, presumably dead. The eland is also depicted from the front or from the back, and even from above.

              The eland appears in four important San rituals it is the most carefully depicted antelope in both rock paintings and engravings: Trance dance, boy's first kill, girl's puberty and marriage. It is believed that eland fat contains a lot of potency and in a trance dance shamans aspire to possess eland potency.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 9HC
              RARI HPC 01 9HC
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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 F84.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 8HC
              RARI HPC 01 8HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-8HC.jpg · Item
              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 F83-&-84-81.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 7HC
              RARI HPC 01 7HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-7HC.jpg · Item
              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 F82-&-83.               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 5HC
              RARI HPC 01 5HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              In the 'upper sleeping bay' of this shelter, most of the rock faces are crumbling and are covered with algae and lichens due to the recurrent flows of rain water.

              On a small area of the wall with a better surface there are a few figures: Three running human figures (two of them being hunters with large quivers) and an eland that appears to have two tails. Paint remains at the top might have been part of another human figure.
              P5 pager F79.

              Quivers are usually made of bark and are used to store arrows. The quiver, bow and other pieces of equipment were carried on a hunting bag, which is wider at one end than the other and which has a thong running its length so that it can be slung over a shoulder.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 4HC
              RARI HPC 01 4HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-4HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              Remains of a running human figure wearing a triangular apron.
              Aprons.
              P4 pager F78.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 3HC
              RARI HPC 01 3HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-3HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              A considerably exfoliated eland in shaded yellow and white.
              P3 pager F77.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 38HC
              RARI HPC 01 38HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-38HC.jpg · Item
              Part of Pager, Harald
              A small, crude figure with extremities of disproportioned sizes.
              P27 pager F138.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 37HC
              RARI HPC 01 37HC
              HPC HPC-RARI-HPC-01-37HC.jpg · Item
              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 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 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