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              RARI LEE RSA VLS2 30
              RARI LEE RSA VLS2 30
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-VLS2-30.jpg · Item · 01/01/1983
              Part of Lee, Neil
              Rhebuck (reedbuck)

              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.               Vielsalm II 47
              RARI LEE RSA VLS2 19
              RARI LEE RSA VLS2 19
              LEE LEE-RARI-LEE-RSA-VLS2-19.jpg · Item · 01/01/1983
              Part of Lee, Neil
              Rain animals.

              Rain-making was one of the San shamans’ most important tasks. The southern San thought of the rain as an animal. This animal was an amorphous quadruped that generally resembled a hippopotamus, but it could also look like an ox or an antelope. A male rain-animal, or rain-bull, was associated with the frightening thunderstorm that bellowed, stirred up the dust, and sometimes killed people with its lightning. The female rain animal was associated with soft, soaking rains.               Vielsalm II 47