. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. KHOISAN PIGMENTS AND PAINTS 259. Fig. 26. A strange figure painted with dots and lines, Willcox shelter, Giant's Castle Nature Reserve, Natal. may be that these marks were the patterns made with finger-nails in body paint, and these, too, could have been depicted in the paintings. There is some evidence of scarification among the Hottentots, but much less than among the Bushmen. Body decoration by the Bushmen has been emphasized in connection with rock paintings (Vinnicombe 1976: 253), but it has been noted in this st
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. KHOISAN PIGMENTS AND PAINTS 259. Fig. 26. A strange figure painted with dots and lines, Willcox shelter, Giant's Castle Nature Reserve, Natal. may be that these marks were the patterns made with finger-nails in body paint, and these, too, could have been depicted in the paintings. There is some evidence of scarification among the Hottentots, but much less than among the Bushmen. Body decoration by the Bushmen has been emphasized in connection with rock paintings (Vinnicombe 1976: 253), but it has been noted in this study that the Hottentots were as prone to painting themselves with patterns as were the Bushmen, probably more so, judging by the amount of references to this in the literature, although this may be misleading. In discussing painted faces in rock art (Vinnicombe 1976), reference was also made to the faces of 1x66 initiates being painted to resemble the 'face' of a gemsbok (see Heinz 1966, who. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town [etc. ] The Museu
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