Allusions to Agriculturist Rituals in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art? eMkhobeni Shelter, Northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hollmann |D Jeremy |u Division of Archaeology and Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, Johannesburg, Wits, South Africa |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Allusions to Agriculturist Rituals in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art? eMkhobeni Shelter, Northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |h [Elektronische Daten] |c [Jeremy Hollmann] |
| 520 | 3 | |a Unusual and uncommon motifs at eMkhobeni Shelter, in the foothills of the northern uKhahlamba-Drakensberg of KwaZulu-Natal, look like Bushman hunter-gatherer paintings. However, amidst the many images at this site are motifs that apparently allude to a historic cultural practice of Bantu-speaking agriculturists—the widely performed first-fruits festival, as well as to Nguni rain-making practices. These motifs include the slaughter of a bull with an axe, depictions of figures wearing items of Nguni clothing, figures driving black-painted cattle and a black sheep. The motifs are understood here as symbols of fertility, especially rain-making, that the eMkhobeni painters (argued to be Bushman hunter-gatherers living alongside agriculturists) incorporated into their repertoire. The creation on the rock face of signal moments from first-fruit ceremonies and the painting of black cattle and sheep may be understood as a way of strengthening Bushman hunter-gatherer control over fertility and rain-making. It is argued that the imagery validated the social and economic position of local Bushman hunter-gatherer groups and their ritual practitioners, especially in the eyes of their agriculturist neighbours. | |
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