Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S00927, Clocolan, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. This San rock painting shows a rain-animal in plum and white colors. San communities believed that rain-animals had to be captured and slaughtered by shamans in order to bring rain. The image of the painting is part of the Woodhouse Rock Art Collection of the Department of Library Services at the University of Pretoria. The collection includes more than 23,000 slides, maps, and tracings...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
- Date: 1979-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S01392, Ficksburg, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. This San rock painting depicts black-and-red colored magical objects, including rain-animals, such as snakes with animal heads, which are encountered by dancers in their out-of-body vision journeys that are part of the Great Dance. Among all San groups, the most important ritual is the Great Dance in which, through trances, the San say that they harness a kind of spiritual power. They use this...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
- Date: 1988-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S00501, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. This San rock painting depicts red-colored rain-animals. Among all San groups, the most important ritual is the Great Dance in which, through trances, the San say that they harness a kind of spiritual power. They use this power for healing, hunting, removing societal tensions, making rain, and other tasks. Aspects of the Great Dance are pervasive in San rock art, in part because this...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
- Date: 1968-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S00568, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. This San rock painting shows rain-animals in upside-down posture, a familiar indication of death in the San culture. For the San, this death was both literal and metaphoric. Metaphorically, death involved a shaman's passage to the Spirit World that was believed to exist behind the rock surface. The painting is from the eastern Free State of South Africa, which is noted for its depictions...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S01321, Ficksburg, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. This red-and-black San rock-art image of people and a rain-animal depicts aspects of the Great Dance. Among all San groups, the most important ritual is the Great Dance in which, through trances, the San say they harness a kind of spiritual power. They use this power for healing, hunting, removing societal tensions, making rain, and other tasks. San communities also believed that rain-animals had...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
- Date: 1990-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingRock Painting S00176, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State, South Africa. This San rock painting depicts an upside-down, plum-red antelope with a bleeding nose and, at the upper left, a smaller antelope painted in yellow, also bleeding from the nose. The upside-down posture and the nasal emanations both indicate death. For the San, this death was both literal and metaphoric. Metaphorically, death involved a shaman's passage to the Spirit World that was believed to exist...- Contributor: Woodhouse, Herbert Charles
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Photo, Print, DrawingCentral Panel of the Painted Cave of Gáldar. The Painted Cave of Gáldar is in northwest Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands archipelago of Spain. It is part of a complex of pre-Hispanic caves that were rediscovered in 1862. Full archaeological excavations took place in 1987-2005. The caves are carved out of the tufa and arranged around a central space. The first occupation of the settlement dates from the sixth century, but...- Date: 1100-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingRocks with Hieroglyphics Made by the Indigenous People, Province of Bogotá.
Piedras con jeroglíficos de los indios, a inmediaciones de Facatativá This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820--1902) depicts a rugged scene in the province of Bogotá (present-day Cundinamarca Department), Colombia. The caption on the painting identifies the scene as that of "stones with hieroglyphs made by the Indians, close to the Facatativá [River], facing the savannah of Bogotá." The "hieroglyphs" are pictographs made by local people, probably in pre-colonial times. The watercolor is typical...- Contributor: Paz, Manuel María - Colombia. Comisión Corográfica
- Date: 1855-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingErratic Stone, near the Town of Pandi, with Hieroglyphs made by the Indians, Province of Bogotá.
Piedra errática, en las cercanías del pueblo de Pandi, cerca de otro grupo, con jeroglíficos de los indios This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820--1902) shows an unusual red-painted and inscribed rock in the province of Bogotá (present-day Cundinamarca Department), Colombia. The caption on the painting identifies the scene as that of an "erratic stone, located near the town of Pandi, close to another group, with hieroglyphs made by the Indians, all facing the Boquerón, from where the Sumapaz runs down to...- Contributor: Paz, Manuel María - Colombia. Comisión Corográfica
- Date: 1855-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingGroup of Rocks with Hieroglyphs near Pandi, Province of Bogotá.
Grupo de piedras cerca del pueblo de Pandi, con jeroglíficos de los indios, volteados hacia el Boqueron por donde se desaguo el antiguo lago de Fusagasuga, probablemente cuando cayo sobre el lago superior de Sumapax, cuya catastofe acaso descubrio el rio etonces subterraneo, sobre el cual esta el puente natural de Icononzo This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820--1902) depicts a scene in the province of Bogotá (present-day Cundinamarca Department), Colombia. The caption on the painting identifies the subject as a "group of stones near the town of Pandi, with hieroglyphs made by the Indians, facing the Boqueron, close to the old lake of Fusagasuga, probably when the upper lake of Sumapaz fell, which led to...- Contributor: Paz, Manuel María - Colombia. Comisión Corográfica
- Date: 1855-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPetroglify - naskal'nye risunki.
Петроглифы - наскальные рисунки. This collection contains photographs from the international photographic expedition, "People on the Frontier," to the Saian-Altai region from June 12 to July 4, 2002. The photographs tell stories about such topics as the peoples of the region, their religions, steppe roads, and everyday life. Photographers who participated in the expedition included Heidi Bradner (Panos Pictures, London), Vladimir Dubrovskii (Novosibirsk), Sergei Il'nitskii (Moscow), Andrei Kobylko...- Contributor: Bradner, Heidi
- Date: 2002-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page