Creatures with tusks in the rock paintings of Southern Africa

dc.contributor.authorWoodhouse, Herbert Charles, 1919-2011
dc.contributor.editorVan den Berg, Dirk Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-09T05:52:57Z
dc.date.available2011-06-09T05:52:57Z
dc.date.created2011
dc.date.issued1987-06
dc.descriptionArticle 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.abstractFrom 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.abstractIn 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.extent7 pagesen_US
dc.format.mediumPDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationWoodhouse, 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.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/16730
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectRock paintingsen_US
dc.subjectTusked figuresen_US
dc.subjectBushmenen_US
dc.subjectSanen_US
dc.subjectPrimitive arten_US
dc.subject.lcshRock paintings -- Africa, Southern -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshAnimals in art -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshSymbolism in art -- Africa, Southern -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshSymbolism in folklore -- Africa, Southern -- Historyen
dc.titleCreatures with tusks in the rock paintings of Southern Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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