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The water snake of the Khoekhoen and / Xam / Ansie Hoff

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: South African Archaeological Bulletin ; 52: 21-37, 1997Publication details: Cape Town, 1997Description: 17 pages; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • REP 305.8961 HOF
Summary: Research was conducted among the Khoekhoen and descendants of the / Xam San with the purpose of contributing to ethnographic data on the water snake, one of the large snakes depicted in rock art. It was found that a substantial amount of information is still obtainable from the Khoekhoen and / Xam. Evidence indicates that the Water Snake was regarded as a symbol for water and therefore as a particularly potent phenomenon
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Research was conducted among the Khoekhoen and descendants of the / Xam San with the purpose of contributing to ethnographic data on the water snake, one of the large snakes depicted in rock art. It was found that a substantial amount of information is still obtainable from the Khoekhoen and / Xam. Evidence indicates that the Water Snake was regarded as a symbol for water and therefore as a particularly potent phenomenon

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