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Title: Elsie Vaalbooi, Print # 53
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, 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, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi was a fluent N|uu speaker and a member of the Council of Elders. In 1997 she gave the Northern Cape, South Africa's largest province, its moto: Sa ||a !aĩsi 'uĩsi (“We go to a better life”). She passed away in 2002.
Identifier: islandora:27195

Title: Interion, Paulshoek, Namaqualand
Subject: Dwellings--South Africa--Paulshoek, Older people--South Africa--Paulshoek,
Description: Interior of a living room, Paulshoek, Namaqualand.
Identifier: islandora:5170

Title: Uniondale
Subject: Acacia mearnsii--Eastern Cape (South Africa), Fabaceae--Eastern Cape (South Africa), Invasive plants--Eastern Cape (South Africa), Plants--Eastern Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Unknown, Location: Kouga State Forest, Uniondale., Ecology: Acacia mearnsii as successful coloniser of karroid hill slopes.
Identifier: islandora:2554

Title: Jakkalsrivier experimental area
Subject: Meyburgh, J. C., Hewlett, J. D., Van de Zel, D. W., Wicht, C. L., (Christiaan Lodewyk), 1908-1978, Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Lebanon State Forest, Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:4570

Title: Kalk Bay
Subject: Kalk Bay (South Africa) -- Maps., Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: Maps of the Kalk Bay area with sheets for Clovelly, Kalk Bay itself and St James. The maps show streets, roads, the railway line, railway stations, buildings (domestic and business), churches, schools, playing fields, the wash house, rivers, the shore line, Woolley's Pool, Kalk Bay harbour, Dalebrook Pool, Danger Beach, Aquarium Gully and the Kalk Bay pavilion, bathing pool and swimming pool., Relief shown pictorially., The maps are stapled together between 2 covers., 01. Clovelly, EC 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by K. Powell, Aug. 1952 -- 02. Clovelly, ED 95 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, May 1951 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Aug. 1952 -- 03. Kalk Bay, ED 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Dec. 1950 ; drawn by J. Pelczyński, July, 1952 -- 04. Kalk Bay, ED 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, March 1952 -- 05. Kalk Bay, EE 95 / surveyed by W. Black, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, July, 1952 -- 06. Kalk Bay, EE 94 / surveyed by R. Taylor, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, June, 1952 -- 07. Kalk Bay, EE 93 / surveyed by E. Cuthbert, Feb. 1951 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, J. Pelczyński, Sept. 1952 -- 08. Kalk Bay, EE92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Nov. 1950 ; drawn by E. Wagstaffe, July 1952 -- 09. St James, EF 90 / surveyed by F. Bayley, Jan. 1951 ; drawn by A. Spencer-Hicken, Nov., 1951 -- 10. Kalk Bay, EF 92 / surveyed by G. Hodgson, Oct. 1950 ; drawn by K. Powell, June 1952 -- 11. St James, EF 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, Sept. 1950 ; drawn by M. Ebdon, July 1952 -- 12. St James, EG 91 / surveyed by E. Hansen, P. Wood-Pottle ; drawn by M. Ebdon, Feb. 1951.
Identifier: islandora:19843

Title: Grabouw Forest Reserve
Subject: Leucadendron gandogeri--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Grabouw Forest Reserve., Ecology: Leucadendron gandogeri.
Identifier: islandora:3087

Title: Garcia State Forest
Subject: Protea lorifolia--Western Cape (South Africa), Proteaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Riversdale, Location: Garcia State Forest., Ecology: Protea lorifolia.
Identifier: islandora:3859

Title: Conophytum minimum (Haw.) N.E.Br.
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum minimum (Haw.) N.E.Br. Plate 23, Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58. H. Drawn from a collection made at Touws River, Worcester Division by J. Acock (sub-National Botanical Garden 2029/33). [Refer to sheet: Bolus Herbarium 131122 for drawing of dissected flower parts].
Identifier: islandora:23252

Title: Report on an open air site near Duynefontein.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Report on an open air site in Duynefontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Bone and stone artefacts were found.
Identifier: islandora:21905

Title: Jakkalsrivier experimental area
Subject: Leucadendron xanthoconus--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa, Botany--Research--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Lebanon State Forest, Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Leucadendron xanthoconus.
Identifier: islandora:4728

Title: Lampranthus sp.
Subject: South Africa, Aizoaceae--South Africa, Botany--South Africa--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Lampranthus sp. Dissected drawing of flower included. Drawn from a collection made by Dr. Luckhoff.
Identifier: islandora:24084

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Tradouw Pass Cave, Swellendam, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Photograph of the signposted shelter at the Tradouw Pass Cave site.
Identifier: islandora:21550

Title: Nxaxo Forest
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Description: Nxaxo Forest
Identifier: islandora:10091

Title: A bird's nest in a dead Camel Thorn tree within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Subject: San (African people)--South Africa--Witdraai, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Witdraai, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Birds--Nests--South Africa--Witdraai, Landscapes--South Africa--Witdraai, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: According to folklore, the San attempted to live their lives like birds. As much as possible, they never quarrelled and looked out for one another when danger appeared.
Identifier: islandora:27224

Title: Image from rock painting site. Site of Kanetvlei I, Hex River Valley, Western Cape, South Africa.
Subject: Rock paintings--South Africa--Western Cape., , ,
Description: Rock painting of antelopes in red.
Identifier: islandora:21428

Title: Witbank-Middelburg coalfield
Subject: Coal mines and mining--South Africa--Mpumalanga--Maps, Coal--South Africa--Witbank, Coal--South Africa--Middelburg, ,
Description: Map of Witbank and Middelburg Coalfield showing collieries administered by the Central Mining-Rand Mines Group, with names of places, collieries producers, collieries non-producers, railways, rivers, and roads. Some colours. Scale 1:120,000.
Identifier: islandora:30024

Title: Laingsburg
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Laingsburg Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Western Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Laingsburg area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24838

Title: Church gathering
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, dance, ritual, celebration, dress, traditional, woman, man, women, men, mud, sand, drums, stick, religion, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Zionist Christian Church, Independent churches--South Africa, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: An outdoor church gathering. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa. Circa 1992.
Identifier: islandora:12071

Title: Report on a site close to Touwsriver, on the farm Nooitgedacht.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, Rock paintings--South Africa, , ,
Description: Report on a site is close to Touwsriver, on the farm Nooitgedacht. The report relates to a very shallow rock shelter that faces east over plain. Rock paintings showing human and animal figures were found.
Identifier: islandora:21786

Title: Report on a surface site, yielding artefacts.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, ,
Description: Report on a surface site yielding Mid Stone Age and Late Stone Age flakes, Mid Stone Age cores, Western Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:21959

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