An unusual depiction of an eland-like animal (Tragelaphus oryx) in black with red dots. The head has not been preserved because it was in white pigment that clings to rather than bonds with the rock, and thus weathers ...

Hind part of a brownish-ochre eland. Though the head and forequarters are missing, this animal can be identified on the basis of its size and rump, which is rounded and not square like a cow's. In front of this eland's ...

This photograph is dominated by a creature of massive proportions and unusual plum colouring. Not identifiable as a creature of this world, it probably represents one of a wide range of Beasts and Beings that San believed ...

A famous rain-animal image cluster from the Slabberts region of the eastern Free State, South Africa. Initially interpreted as representing two hippopotamus in pools of water (zigzags), San ethnography more adequately ...

Close up of left-hand hippopotamus-like rain-animal (see S00495). The zigzgag lines probably represent both water and one of a limited range of visual hallucinations experienced by rain-shamans, who had to enter a trance ...

Close-up of left-hand rain-animal seen in S00495. Notice the detail of the back feet. The rain-animals were said to leave 'footprints' on the land - what we would call the impression rain drops make in the sand.

rain animals, coloured red

rain animals, coloured red

rain animals/upside down, coloured red

rain animal, coloured plum