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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:12090

Title: |Una Rooi beneath the Tree of Life
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, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi was delivered under the Tree of Life 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, Tweeriviere. |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
Identifier: islandora:27170

Title: Man from Mount Temple, Langebergen, G.W.
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26414

Title: A Kalahari heritage : Vaalbooi family territory
Subject: Vaalbooi Family, San (African people), San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Ethnic identity, South Africa--Maps,
Description: This map shows the Vaalbooi family territories in Northern Cape, South Africa. It includes a family tree and photographs of family members as well as personal anecdotes and notes relating to how and why the family moved. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27311

Title: Carving wood
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, portrait, man, carving, indigenous, wood, tool, skill, craft, work, sand, sticks, hut, Wood-carvers--Botswana, Wood-carving--Botswana, San (African people)--Botswana, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Description: Man carving wood. Xabe, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11806

Title: !Gwi returns from a hunt
Subject: Bushman, Bushmanland, !Gwi, hunting, gathering, silhouette, bow, San (African people)--Hunting--Namibia, San (African people)--Food--Namibia, Hunting and gathering societies--Namibia, Subsistence hunting--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12339

Title: Rikki Kruiper
Subject: Kruiper, Rikki, 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, San (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Khomani (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Rikki Kruiper poses above a grave of an unidentified San community member marked by springbok horns. When a member of the San community dies they are buried, according to San tradition, with their feet facing towards the rising sun and with the sand touching their skin.
Identifier: islandora:27126

Title: Sitting outside
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, man, table, jars, sitting, hut, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12342

Title: Man holding a child
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, child, house, San, indigenous, house, building, settlement, uniform, army, Veterans--Namibia, San (African people)--Dwellings--Namibia, Building, Iron and steel--Namibia, Toys--Namibia, Namibia
Description: An ex-soldier wearing army overalls and cap, holding a child, standing in a settlement of corrugated iron structures. In the background is a boy with a wire toy. Tsintsabis, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11696

Title: Collecting roots
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, grass, bushveld, roots, San (African people)--Food--Botswana--Ghanzi District, San (African people)--Implements--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Hunting and gathering societies--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12242

Title: At home
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, man, child, home, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Dwellings--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12213

Title: Examples of consonants
Subject: African languages, Linguistics, Ju/'hoan language, San languages, Westphal, Ernst (Ernst O. J.), 1919-2002
Description: A letter to Ernst Westphal, written by Terttu Heikinnen, including lists of examples of !x? consonants
Identifier: islandora:7681

Title: Athletics class
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, tent, race, run, San, indigenous, settlement, teacher, trainer, athletes, students, scholars, San (African people)--Recreation--South Africa, San (African people)--Sports--South Africa, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: Athletics class. Four young men are running towards their instructor. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11748

Title: Hugh Brody
Subject: Brody, Hugh, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Anthropology--Research, Indigenous peoples--Research--South Africa--Northern Cape, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Hugh Brody is comparative anthropologist and a writer who holds the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He has been conducting research with the ǂKhomani San since 1996.
Identifier: islandora:27084

Title: Jakob Malgas gathering medicinal herbs
Subject: Malgas, Jakob, 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, Medicinal plants--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Hunting and gathering societies--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Jakob Malgas gathering medicinal plants. Any plants he would collect would be kept, along with his tobacco and matches, in his bag. 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.
Identifier: islandora:26963

Title: N?aisa
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, portrait, woman, hand, San, indigenous, Older people--Namibia, Kavango (Namibia)
Description: Portrait of N?aisa, an elderly San. Kavango, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11941

Title: Ceremony at the caves
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, woman, rock paintings, ceremony, San (African people)--South Africa--KwaZulu-Natal--Rites and ceremonies, San (African people)--Drakensberg Mountains--Rites and ceremonies, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12427

Title: Dikuwa Erna Mushinga, ceramic artist
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, woman, pottery, portrait, Art, San--South Africa--Northern Cape, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, Potters--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12474

Title: Traditional use of the territory by the Bushmen within the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park : (based on Field Survey, September 1999) : draft, Map item #17
Subject: Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Botswana and South Africa), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--South Africa, Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--South Africa, San (African people)--Kalahari Desert, Africa, Southern--Maps, ,
Description: A draft map showing the use of territory by the San community in the South African section of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park. The map shows the location of Bushmen settlements (including a large camp at Union's End) and includes information about hunting and gathering grounds, waterholes, and the history of the area. [Scale included]
Identifier: islandora:27341

Title: Breastfeeding woman with liquor bottle
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, bottle, child, alcohol, San, indigenous, bushveld, breastfeeding, San (African people)--Alcohol use--Namibia, Breastfeeding--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: A woman carries a breastfeeding baby in a sling, and a bottle of liquor in her one hand. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11909

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