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Photo, Print, Drawing Rock Painting S00568, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State.

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Title

  • Rock Painting S00568, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State.

Summary

  • 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 of upside-down antelope in a variety of unusual contexts. 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 from a large number of rock art sites in South Africa. The San are hunter-gatherer people who lived throughout southern and eastern Africa for thousands of years before being displaced by African tribes and European settlers. The San people continue to live in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia.

Names

  • Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, 1919- Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [8000 B.C. to 1900 B.C.]

Headings

  • -  South Africa--Free State--Bethlehem
  • -  8000 B.C. to 1900 B.C
  • -  Dihlabeng District Municipality
  • -  Indigenous peoples
  • -  Rain animals
  • -  Rock art
  • -  Rock paintings
  • -  San (African people)
  • -  San art

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: Representation of a slide.
  • -  Original resource at: University of Pretoria Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Woodhouse Rock Art Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669879

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, Photographer. Rock Painting S8, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. South Africa Free State Bethlehem, 8000. [place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, B.C. to 1900 B.C] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669879/.

APA citation style:

Woodhouse, H. C. (8000) Rock Painting S8, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. South Africa Free State Bethlehem, 8000. [place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, B.C. to 1900 B.C] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669879/.

MLA citation style:

Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, Photographer. Rock Painting S8, Bethlehem, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State. [place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, B.C. to 1900 B.C] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669879/>.