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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: 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: |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: 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: 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: 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: |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

Title: Jakob Malgas gathering tsamma melons on the dunes.
Subject: tsamma melons ; 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, Plants, Edible--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 tsamma melons (Citrullus lanatus) on the dunes in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Depending on where the melons grow in the park, they will have a different chemical composition, and therefore, taste due to centuries of water accumulation, evaporation and drought.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:26997

Title: The landscape surrounding the Old Bushman Camp near Twee Rivieren.
Subject: 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, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Plants--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Data collected from San elders during the cultural mapping process reveals that this site was used by the San community who were living in and around the park prior to 1936.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:27162

Title: Learners at a N|uu language class
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Kassie, Magdalena ; Kassie. Lena ; Witbooi, Lientjie ; Sauls, Getreda ; Brou, Kheis ; N|uu language, 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, San (African people)--Languages, Khomani language--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Youth attend one of the N|uu language classes at the Andriesvale Hall, Northern Cape, South Africa. Those present include, Magdalena Kassie, Lena Kassie, Lientjie Witbooi (with her child), Getreda Sauls, Ouma Kheis. Andriesvale Hall.
Identifier: islandora:27104

Title: Mother and daughter at a church service
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, portrait, child, woman, San, indigenous, congregation, religion, church, San (African people)--South Africa--Religion, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Description: A mother and daughter at a Dutch Reformed Church service. Another woman's face can be seen indistinctly. Schmidtsdrift, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11893

Title: Karel "Vet Piet" Kleinman and members of the |Khasi-Kassie Family reconnect with the ancestral heritage under the Tree of Family.
Subject: Tree of Family ; Kleinman, Karel "Vet Piet", 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: Found on the eastern border of the Old Bushman Camp, the Tree of Family is of great importance to the ǂKhomani San community and was both a resting and meeting place for the community. Members of the San community used to play here as children before they were evicted from the area.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:27032

Title: |Una Rooi and an unidentified member of the San community.
Subject: 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, San (African people)--Languages, Khomani language--Study and teaching, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi and an unidentified member of the San community. Both women were teachers at the N|uu language school. |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:27089

Title: Unidentified member of the San community resting at a picnic area at the roadside
Subject: 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, Men--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: 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:27013

Title: Circumcision ceremony
Subject: Xhosa cultureCircumcision--Africa, Southern, Xhosa (African people)--Social life and customs, Young adults--South Africa
Description: Tribal initiation: circumcision ceremony.
Identifier: islandora:8268

Title: |Una Rooi, Print # 2
Subject: 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi participating in the data collection for the Land Claims process. |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:27198

Title: Vegetation in the arid landscape of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
Subject: 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, Plants--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Vegetation located just North West of Gemsbokplein in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the ancestral home of ǂKhomani San. This open area was used as a hunting ground. This image was taken during one of the first data collection excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Images from this period were key in building a strong foundation for the oral history and mapping processes in the early years of the Land Claim research process.
Identifier: islandora:26453

Title: Traditional dance
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, dance, ritual, celebration, traditional, man, men, fire, sand, night, Khomani (African people)--South Africa, San (African people)--South Africa--Social life and customs, Dance--South Africa, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Description: Evening gathering with dancing at the fire. Khomani San perform a traditional dance. Kalahari, Northern Cape.
Identifier: islandora:12050

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