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            90 Images & Collections results for Ugie and Maclear

            NASMUS RSA ANG1 20
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 20
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-20.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Eland, antelope, running figures

            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.             Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 22
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 22
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-22.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            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.             Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 25
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 25
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-25.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Bending forward posture, human figures, bows, arrows, headdresses, antelope, upside down figures, quivers, snakes? Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 30
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 30
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-30.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Bows, human figures, bending forward posture, headdresses Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 33
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 33
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-33.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Human figures, weird whites, bows, arrows Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 34
            NASMUS RSA ANG1 34
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-ANG1-34.jpg · Item · 18/10/2001
            Part of National Museum
            Human figures, antelope, rhebuck, figures carrying animals Angora I 117
            NASMUS RSA FST2 4
            NASMUS RSA FST2 4
            ZA NASMUS NASMUS-NASMUS-RSA-FST2-4.jpg · Item · 23/05/1995
            Part of National Museum
            Rhebuck

            Rhebuck is one of the antelope that are most frequently depicted, after the eland. The rhebuck is comparable to the eland because it is often painted in shaded polychrome. Both eland and rhebuck are depicted in two colours, mainly red and white, even though they are more grey than red. Depictions of men with rhebuck heads are shamans. It is known that shamans with rhebuck heads controlled eland and harnessed their power to enter trance and to perform their various tasks, including rain-making.             Forest Reserve II 191
            RARI LEE RSA FST1 6
            RARI LEE RSA FST1 6
            LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-FST1-6.jpg · Item · 01/11/1991
            Part of Lee, Neil
            Human figures, flywhisks

            Depictions of flywhisks in rock art are quite common. They are important accessories for the trance dance in which they are used to keep arrows of sickness at bay.Paintings of them are a good indication of trance.             Forest Reserve I 191