Creatures with tusks in the rock paintings of Southern Africa

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dc.contributor.author Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, 1919-2011
dc.contributor.editor Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes
dc.date.accessioned 2011-06-09T05:52:57Z
dc.date.available 2011-06-09T05:52:57Z
dc.date.created 2011
dc.date.issued 1987-06
dc.description Article digitised using: Suprascan 1000 RGB scanner, scanned at 400 dpi; 24-bit colour; 100% Image derivating - Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Image levels, crop, deskew Abbyy Fine Reader No.9 - Image manipulation + OCR Adobe Acrobat 9 (PDF) en_US
dc.description.abstract From time to time writers on the rock paintings of South Africa have drawn attention to the depiction of tusks on animals that do not have them in real life and also to tusks on snakes and therianthropic figures. The known examples are collated and tabulated together with a brief description of the main features of the printed contexts in which they appear. The relevant zoology and ethnography are examined and two possible hypotheses for the meaning of the tusks are considered as a basis for future study of this interesting artistic phenomenon. en_US
dc.description.abstract In die literatuur oor rotskuns in Suid-Afrika word daar verskeie male verwys na afbeeldings van groot slagtande by diere wat dit nie in die werklikheid het nie en ook na sulke tande by slange en dieragtige mensfigure. Die voorbeelde wat tot dusver bekend is word in hierdie artikel oorsigtelik in 'n tabel geplaas en 'n kort beskrywing word gegee van die verband waarin hulle in die literatuur verskyn. 'n Ondersoek is gedoen na die betrokke dierkundige en volkekundige verbande en twee hipoteses word voorgestel vir die betekenis van die tande as 'n basis vir verdere navorsing van hierdie interessante artistieke verskynsel. af
dc.format.extent 7 pages en_US
dc.format.medium PDF en_US
dc.identifier.citation Woodhouse, HC 1987, 'Creatures with tusks in the rock paintings of Southern Africa', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 2, issue 1&2, pp. 40-46. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0258-3542
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16730
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.rights Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.subject Rock paintings en_US
dc.subject Tusked figures en_US
dc.subject Bushmen en_US
dc.subject San en_US
dc.subject Primitive art en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Rock paintings -- Africa, Southern -- History en
dc.subject.lcsh Animals in art -- History en
dc.subject.lcsh Symbolism in art -- Africa, Southern -- History en
dc.subject.lcsh Symbolism in folklore -- Africa, Southern -- History en
dc.title Creatures with tusks in the rock paintings of Southern Africa en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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