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A graveyard outside a former Bushmen settlement near Twee Rivieren.
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A graveyard outside a former Bushmen settlement near Twee Rivieren.
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Burial grounds, 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, Cemeteries--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern
Description
During one of the early research trips to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a trip was made to two adjacent grave sites near a former settlement near Twee Rivieren. Several historically significant Bushmen are buried in these graveyards. When a member of the San community dies they are buried, according to San tradition, with their feet towards the rising sun and with the sand touching their skin. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
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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islandora:27158
Source
mss_bvf41_546-2.jpg
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ǂKhomani San Hugh Brody Archive: Photographs
Coverage
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), 1997-1999
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