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Title: Abu [surname unknown] playing on sand dunes between two graveyards
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, Children--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:27160

Title: Hugh Brody driving a red minivan, Print # 33
Subject: Brody, Hugh, 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, Anthropology--Research, Indigenous peoples--Research--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: As part of the research process several trips were made into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park with large numbers of researchers and San community members. A minivan was a practical solution.
Identifier: islandora:27211

Title: Jakob Malgas and Lena Malgas at the limestone grottoes at Witdraai
Subject: Malgas, Jakob ; Malgas, Lena, 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, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Jakob Malgas and Lena Malgas posing in front of limestone grottoes at Witdraai in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. These grottoes played an important part in the ǂKhomani San's cultural heritage. At one time, they were used as a prison for the San and inmates were chained to the interior walls. In later times, upon returning from the Empire Exhibition, the participants discovered their homes had been burnt down by Basters (the descendants of Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous African women). Several San community members including Ouma |Una Rooi came to live here.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:26982

Title: Image of rock painting site
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, Rock paintings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: A rock art drawing of two figures in red.
Identifier: islandora:27169

Title: Map of the South African Republic or Trans-Vaal Showing the newly discovered Gold Diggings & the Diamond Fields in the Orange River Free State (adjoining)
Subject: Southern Africa
Description: London. Purcell, Matthew A.
Identifier: islandora:25589

Title: Learners
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, book, child, education, San, indigenous, school, education, Children, San--Education (Elementary)--South Africa, Western Cape (South Africa)
Description: Class in progress at an informal school. Children, some on mats, busy with learning activities. Kagga Kamma, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11873

Title: Xade settlement
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, hut, man, settlement, guitar, instrument, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Dwellings--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Huts--Botswana, San (African people)--Botswana--Music, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12246

Title: On a Bushman trail
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, tourists, trail, bushveld, Ecotourism--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Heritage tourism--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Game reserves--Botswana--Ghanzi District, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12299

Title: Southern Africa
Subject: Africa, Southern--Maps,
Description: Map of Southern Africa with territories, showing names of countries, districts, international boundaries, roads, railways, rivers, lakes, oceans, pans, and marshes. Coloured. Scale: 1 in. to 200 kilometres. Projection not given.
Identifier: islandora:29920

Title: Ou Regopstaan Kruiper
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, bed, man, visitor, San, indigenous, corrugated iron, sick, ill, blanket, woman, hands, Kruiper, Ou Regopstaan, San (African people)--South Africa, South Africa
Description: Ou Regopstaan Kruiper lying in his shack outside the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park with his helper in attendance. South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:11985

Title: Smoking a pipe
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, sand, man, pipe, smoking, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12248

Title: Petrus Vaalbooi, Print # 90
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus, 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: Petrus is a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process. Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27192

Title: Goat herder at sunset
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, land rights, removal, man, silhouette, sunset, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Goatherds--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Goat farmers--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Domestic animals--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12261

Title: Collecting berries
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, gathering, woman, bushveld, blanket, San (African people)--Food--Namibia, Hunting and gathering societies--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12122

Title: Cape Government Railways map
Subject: Africa, Southern -- Maps., Railroads -- South Africa -- Maps.
Description: The map shows the railway routes in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, Zululand, Griqualand East and Pondoland in present-day South Africa as well as in Rhodesia. The map also indicates the neighbouring British Bechaunaland Protectorate, German South West Africa, Basuto Land, and Portuguese Territory but no railway routes are shown in these territories. Also indicated are rivers, lakes, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Indian Ocean to the east. The reference key points to the "Cape Government Railways & Lines administered by the Cape Government", "Other Railways", and [railways] "under construction authorised or proposed"., An inset map in the bottom right corner shows Cape Town and surroundings as well as detailed railway routes as far as Kalabas Kraal, Malan, French Hoek [Franschhoek] and Caledon., A small section of the top left side of the map has been torn off but no image or text is affected. The map is torn along the left hand folds., Townshend, Taylor and Snashall (Firm)
Identifier: islandora:19583

Title: |Una Rooi, |Abaka Koper and Kheis Brou rest at a roadside stop, Print #21
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Brou, Kheis ; 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, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi, |Abaka Koper and Kheis Brou reconnect with their cultural heritage during a research trip into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. They share their stories and memories with Hugh Brody and others, to strengthen their Land Claim and have their history recorded for future generations.
Identifier: islandora:27207

Title: DTA meeting
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, rally, politics, San, indigenous, crowd, politics, gathering, Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Namibia), San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Public meetings--Namibia, Gobabis District (Namibia)
Description: A crowd of people attending a DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance) meeting on a farm. Gobabis District, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11843

Title: Discussing removal
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, man, portrait, meeting, San, indigenous, imminent removal, land rights, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District--Politics and government, San (African people)--Relocation--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12267

Title: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi.
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie ; Vaalbooi, Petrus, 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, Men--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.Petrus Vaalbooi is a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process.Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27193

Title: Members of the San community share their knowledge and memories with researchers, Print # 57
Subject: Rooi, |Una, Koper, Abaka ; Brou, Kheis, 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, Kheis Brou and |Abaka Koper reconnect with their cultural heritage during a research trip into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. They share their stories and memories with Hugh Brody and others, to strengthen their Land Claim and have their history recorded for future generations. |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:27183

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