|Una Rooi hugging the Tree of Life

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Title: |Una Rooi hugging the Tree of Life
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Subject: Tree of Life ; Rooi, |Una, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern
Description: |Una Rooi hugging the Tree of Life. She was delivered under this tree in 1931 by her grandmother, |Uruke, a medicine woman. This is her first time coming back to the tree since being evicted from the park.|Una Rooi was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application. She was a fluent N|uu speaker and taught N|uu and San cultural history to children in Andriesvale, Northern Cape, South Africa, and was a member of Council of Elders. She was born in the Kalahari Gemsbok Park in 1931 and passed away in 2012.
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
Contributor: Chennells, Roger (contributor), Crawhall, N. T. (Nigel T.) (contributor), Brody, Hugh (contributor), Kemp, Bill (contributor), Blasevic, Valter (contributor), Chamberlin, J. Edward, 1943- (contributor), Comic Relief (Organization) (contributor), University of the Fraser Valley (contributor), Open Channels (contributor), South African San Institute (contributor)
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Identifier: islandora:27141
Source: mss_bvf41_lam 21.jpg
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Relation: ǂKhomani San Hugh Brody Archive: Photographs
Coverage: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), 1997-2002
Rights: For copyright information and terms of usage, click here: http://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/brody-khomani-san-rights.html

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