Photo, Print, Drawing Rock Painting S01392, Ficksburg, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State.
About this Item
Title
- Rock Painting S01392, Ficksburg, Dihlabeng District Municipality, Free State.
Summary
- 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 power for healing, hunting, removing societal tensions, making rain, and other tasks. San communities also 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 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], 1988.
Headings
- - South Africa--Free State--Ficksburg
- - 8000 B.C. to 1900 B.C
- - Dihlabeng District Municipality
- - Rock art
- - Rock paintings
- - 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
- 2021669882
Online Format
- compressed data
- image