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Title: Vingerpol
Subject: vingerpol, 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: For the ǂKhomani San the vingerpol, a fleshy succulent found in the Kalahari and the Karoo, has several traditional uses. These plants and their uses are generally guarded secrets and kept in the community, passed on from one generation to the next.
Identifier: islandora:27232

Title: Washing hands
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, bushveld, can, San, indigenous, water, hygiene, bucket, wash, sticks, tree, clothes, sand, San (African people)--Health and hygiene--Namibia, Hand washing--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: A woman, sitting on the ground, washes her hands. Bushmanland, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11911

Title: Kxao /Ai!ae with pipe
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, portrait, pipe, San, indigenous, hand, Pipe smokers--Namibia, San (African people)--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: Kxao /Ai!ae, the gardener, at the end of a day, with a pipe in his mouth. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11725

Title: Members of the San community at the South African San Institute (SASI) office
Subject: Kassie, Antjie ; Esau, Katriena, 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Antjie Kassie, Katriena Esau and an unidentified member of the San community rest outside the South African San Institute (SASI) offices in Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27041

Title: Members of the San community share their knowledge and memories with researchers, Print # 3
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Brou, Kheis ; Koper, |Abaka ; Namaseb, Levi, 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--Research--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Kheis Brou, |Una Rooi and |Abaka Koper reconnect with their cultural heritage in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Here |Abaka Koper points out something in the distance to Levi Namaseb.
Identifier: islandora:27199

Title: Lino print
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, art, craft, artist, San, indigenous, skill, work, print, studio, lino, ink, Linoleum block-printing, Artists--Botswana, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Description: Artist pulling a print off an inked linoleum plate. D'Kar, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11882

Title: |Una Rooi and Piet Rooi connect with an unidentified member of the San Community
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Rooi, Piet, 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi and Piet Rooi with an unidentified male standing near a road between Andriesvale and Welkom, Northern Cape, South Africa. |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. Piet Rooi married |Una Rooi In 1948 and in 1967 they were employed in the then-Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. He died a few years before her.
Identifier: islandora:27072

Title: Making an ostrich egg necklace
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, portrait, tool, San, indigenous, hut sticks, thatch, sticks, woman, craft, skill, tradition, jewellery, bangle, Shellcraft--Namibia, San (African people)--Jewelry--Namibia, Necklaces--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: A woman, sitting on the ground, making an ostrich egg necklace. Bushmanland, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11837

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: Woman with liquor bottles
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, bottle, child, alcohol, San, indigenous, sand, building, bicycle, San (African people)--Alcohol use--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: Returning from the bottlestore. A woman carries a child in a sling, and holds a bottle of liquor in each hand. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11907

Title: Ju/'hoan women
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, pipe, woman, child, San, indigenous, !Kung (African people)--Namibia, Household employees--Namibia, San (African people)--Employment--Namibia, Kavango (Namibia)
Description: Ju/'hoan domestic workers. San women sitting outside. The woman in the foreground, with a baby, holds a pipe. There are mangetti nuts on the ground. Kavango, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11945

Title: Chief Seqo G//anako
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, portrait, elder, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve--Kings and rulers, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12378

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: 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: Thatching a hut
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, hut, man, labour, San, indigenous, thatch, build, construction, work, labour, ladder, Grass huts--Botswana--Design and construction, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Description: A man thatching a hut. A handmade ladder rests against the hut. Molapo, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:12007

Title: |Xam mother and baby
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--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:26891

Title: The Tree of Healing
Subject: Tree of Healing, 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: The Tree of Healing marks the gravesite of a powerful San healer and diviner, |Qano#î. He was famous for his ability to summon rain from the South West by dancing and singing ancient songs. Each family usually has at least one healer and they pass their knowledge on from one generation from the next. Data collected from elders during the cultural mapping process reveals that when the San community lost their land the younger generations could not learn to be healers and much of this knowledge was lost. Today, the use of healing plants and the healing dance is only practiced by a few members of the San community but this is a part of their surviving heritage. 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:27036

Title: Nharo elder
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, portrait, hat, San, indigenous, talk, discuss, hat, hand, Naron (African people)--Botswana, San (African people)--Botswana, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Description: Portrait of a San man, a Nharo elder. D'Kar, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11828

Title: Report on the !x'-okxoi Conference of the Bible Society of SA of 25/26 September 1980 at Bible House, Windhoek
Subject: African languages, San languages, Ju/'hoan language, Linguistics
Description: A confidential report on the 1980 San orthography conference
Identifier: islandora:7703

Title: |Abaka Koper resting among the dunes between two graveyards
Subject: Koper, |Abaka, 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, Sand dunes--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. While walking between these graveyards, the elders rest to catch their breath and the children play on the dunes.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:27161

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