digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.18668
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view from the looking towards ponds or kuils. Wildebeest Kuil, South Africa.
Scanned
- Production date
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May 1993 (original photograph)
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30 June 2006 (date digitized)
- Dimensions
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File size: 121 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Wildebeest Kuil, located near Kimberley in the Northern Cape is an important rock art site comprising more than 600 San rock engravings, many of which are thousands of years old. First discovered in the 1870s by the South African geologist and ethnologist George William Stowe, many of the engravings focus on large mammals such as elephant, rhino and hippo, and eland, and are less focused on the human form. The pecked engravings were made by the San, and this site seems to have been a place relating to rain-making beliefs and practices, and was thus a place of great spiritual power. Many of the engravings are of rhino - an animals that rock art researchers propose is an important rain animal. The site is also very close to a series of ponds (Kuils) that even today hold water longer than others for miles around.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.18668
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: SOANTC0030004 (TARA number)