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            22 Images & Collections results for South African

            RARI RSA LIN1 17
            RARI RSA LIN1 17
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-LIN1-17.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Linton I
            RARI RSA LIN1 18
            RARI RSA LIN1 18
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-LIN1-18.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Removals, human figures, therianthropes, red line with white dots,rhebuck, eland, felines Linton I
            RSA LIN1 1
            RSA LIN1 1
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-1.jpg · Item · 01/02/1988
            Part of RARI
            Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 10
            RSA LIN1 10
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-10.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 11
            RSA LIN1 11
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-11.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 12
            RSA LIN1 12
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-12.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Red line with white dots. Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 13
            RSA LIN1 13
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-13.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Red line with white dots, rhebuck, therianthropes, snakes Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 14
            RSA LIN1 14
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-14.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Therianthropes, rhebuck, bags, animals in bags, red line with white dots, bows, arrows, snakes, fish and eels.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 15
            RSA LIN1 15
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-15.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Fish. Dowson, Thomas
            RSA LIN1 16
            RSA LIN1 16
            RARI RARI-RSA-LIN1-16.jpg · Item · 01/12/1987
            Part of RARI
            Another portion of the complex Linton Panel. The red line with fringing white dots represents the 'threads of light' that San shamans climb on their way to the spirit world.
            Published in ' Images of Mystery' page 40.             Dowson, Thomas