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Title: On a Bushman trail
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, education, man, plant, talk, 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:12127

Title: Tony Weaver on a Bushman trail
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, donkey, bushveld, travel, walk, tree, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Indigenous peoples--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Heritage tourism--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Game reserves--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Weaver, Tony, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12175

Title: !xu? consonantal features
Subject: African languages, San languages, Ju/'hoan language, Linguistics
Description: A manuscript dealing with the consonantal features of the !x? language. An early copy of mss_bc1143_c15.5.4.pdf
Identifier: islandora:7702

Title: Dongu
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, woman, dance, child, San, indigenous, bowl, grass, girl, instrument, dress, San (African people)--Namibia--Music, Mbira--Namibia, Music and dance--Namibia, Namibia
Description: A young girl plays the dongu (thumb piano) while her mother dances. //Auru, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11986

Title: Dibe Sesana
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, portrait, woman, Sesana, Dibe, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12385

Title: San elder, Xade
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, elder, talking, land rights, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Rural elderly--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12294

Title: Quack Quack ... President Mbeki's chief adviser on medical matters
Subject: South Africa--Politics and government--1994- --Caricatures and cartoons, AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--South Africa--Caricatures and cartoons, South African wit and humor, Pictorial, South Africa
Description: President Mbeki's denialist position on HIV/AIDS and his dependence on the quack opinions of his panel of his AIDS advisers baffled medical experts and confused the public. The duck quacking away inanely became a useful adjunct in many of my cartoons on this subject. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Identifier: islandora:6125

Title: Oral history interview with Mr B. Risien [Part 3 of 3]
Subject: Oral history, World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--South Africa--Interviews, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, South African
Description: This sub-collection centres on the diverse war experiences of the interviewees, mainly in in North Africa, Italy and South Africa. It contains information about prisoner of war experiences in Italy and Germany and repatriation through the Port of Odessa in 1945. Themes include: 1948 elections in South Africa, desert warfare at El Alamain, entry into the armed forces, family background, war experiences in Mogadishu and Normandy, post-war politics in South Africa, the psychological effects of war, schooling; war and women's employment in the armed forces., Pin5.17a.mp3: Part 3 of 3 ; 25:05 min. ; interview 17 of 19
Identifier: islandora:24984

Title: z/hai (Tsau)
Subject: KhoeSan languages -- African languages--History
Description: Sound recording by Ernst Westphal., Additional notes on tape box: (1) z/hai (Tsau); (2) Yei songs (Nokaam?)/ !xũ (G!angwa) speech & songs, Tape numbered 28.
Identifier: islandora:22520

Title: Cultivating the land
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, woman, cultivating, tool, hoe, San (African people)--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, San (African people)--Agriculture--Botswana--Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12368

Title: Double-skin hourglass-shaped drum with beater (possibly Hausa)
Subject: Musical instruments--Africa, West, Hausa (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 211.242.11 Individual double-skin hourglass-shaped drums, one skin used for playing, Place of production: Africa, West, Probably Hausa
Identifier: islandora:20631

Title: Ugbhu
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.121.221 Mono-heterochord musical bows with resonator without tuning noose, Height: 150mm (5.9in), Width: 233mm (9.1in), Length: 1124mm, Place of production: Nongoma (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20755

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:12087

Title: Woman with radio
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, radio, portrait, woman, San, indigenous, house, building, singing, dress, shadow, San (African people)--Recreation--Namibia, Tsumkwe District (Namibia)
Description: Weekend festivities. A woman, who appears to be singing, holds a radio on her shoulder. Tjum!kui, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11898

Title: Sutherland
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Sutherland Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Sutherland area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The maps are mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24863

Title: !x?
Subject: African languages, Linguistics, Ju/'hoan language, San languages
Description: A manuscript dealing with the !x? language
Identifier: islandora:7688

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi at Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Pieter, Koper, Jan, Khomani language, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Pieter Vaalbooi, Jan Koper and Nigel Crawhall discuss local history
Identifier: islandora:31480

Title: Mother carrying child and wood
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Mother and child--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Fuelwood gatherers--Tanzania--Rungwe Di
Description: Portrait of a mother carrying her child on her back and wood on her head. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5591

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:12061

Title: Pilgrimage to the holy mountain Nhlangakazi
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. Vangeli or evangelists from the church leadership lead a 100,000 pilgrims leave the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe on a three day barefoot march to the holy mountain Nhlangakazi. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7317

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