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              RARI HPC 01 10HC
              RARI HPC 01 10HC
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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 F85.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 11HC
              RARI HPC 01 11HC
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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. Attenuated figures (elongated figures) and ladders.
              P8-pager-F86.               Sibayeni Cave I
              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 13HC
              RARI HPC 01 13HC
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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 F89-90.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 14HC
              RARI HPC 01 14HC
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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 F90-92-&-94.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 15HC
              RARI HPC 01 15HC
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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. Attenuated figures (elongated figures)
              P8 pager F93-95-&-96.               RARI
              RARI HPC 01 16HC
              RARI HPC 01 16HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              At the top are some bichrome human figures of which five of them are wearing karosses of various lengths. Bags, quivers and other objects lie nearby. A row of nine tortoise-shaped figures might represent a row seated human figures wearing karosses. The animal on the left looks like an elephant, but it has no trunk. A running man is depicted across its head. There are more running men depicted and a scene of murder, and there is also a downward jumping antelope. Two tall men with bows and arrows are the last in this sequence of superimpositions. Attenuated figures (elongated figures) and elephants.
              P9 pager F97.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 17HC
              RARI HPC 01 17HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              A shape of obscure meaning and a running human figure at the top with four running human figures lower down.
              P10 pager F102 & F103.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 18HC
              RARI HPC 01 18HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              An eland, painted in shaded white, stands with its front legs in a slanting line. The animal appears to be grazing and a red paint smear below its muzzle might have been placed there to indicate the grass.
              P11 pager F107.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 19HC
              RARI HPC 01 19HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Exfoliating remains of an animal and human figure in brown. Three of them are seated on the ground and a quiver lies nearby. Quivers.
              P12 pager F108.

              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 1HC
              RARI HPC 01 1HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              Two bichrome eland in yellow and white.
              P1 pager F75.               Sibayeni Cave I
              RARI HPC 01 20HC
              RARI HPC 01 20HC
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              Part of Pager, Harald
              This is the main frieze at RSA SEB1. The line of marching figures at the top appears to represent a hunting party because at least ten of them are carrying corpses of slaughtered buck over their shoulders.

              The manner of dress is typical of that of a particular group of Bushmen described to the Missionary Ellenberger. On the other hand, all the images have antelope heads and one or two have antelope hooves. Pager classified these figures as mythical and called them antelope men. It may also be considered that these partly human, partly animal figures are representative of the bushman belief that all animals were once people.

              In the centre of the scene, above the large eland, is a figure with a mask-like face and one arm, which terminates in the head of a rhebok. This figure is also something of an enigma but the mask may be representative of an actual mask, facial painting or scarification.

              This frieze is worthy of close study as it includes numerous interesting little scenes painted on a much smaller scale than the main 'procession'.
              Some of these are:
              1. Man following animal tracks (bottom left hand corner).

              2. Two men stick fighting. Each has an elaborate example of the penis additament.

              3. Men using two sticks to mime the movements of an animal (in white).

              4. Ales or 'flying creatures'

              5. Ladder painted in black.(ladders)

              6. Bowman superimposed on the ladder.

              7. Top right hand corner: man with carrying bag apparently milking a spotted animal. This may represent a section of the Milky Way. The Bushmen had many beliefs linked to the stars and other heavenly bodies.

              8.Bottom right hand corner: A herd of rhebok in a variety of attitudes.
              P13 pager F110.               Sibayeni Cave I