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Title: Grapple, a medicinal plant used by the ǂKhomani San.
Subject: grapple, 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: Grapple is a medicinal plant and is dry plant gray in colour. It is also extracted for medicine related to arthritic pain. The ǂKhomani San use the roots in order to cure severe problems of digestion, especially stomach pain.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:26961

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