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Title: Salt Pan
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Maps., Commissioner's Salt Pan Region (South Africa) -- Maps., Northern Cape (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: This map forms part of the Imperial map of the Cape Colony., The map shows grand trunk roads, trunk roads, branch roads, farm roads, rivers, hills, pans, railways, telegraph lines, homesteads, farm names, farm boundaries and divisional boundaries in the Commissioner's Salt Pan area., Relief shown by hachures., The Imperial map of the Cape Colony was "compiled by the Field Intelligence Division or Department of the British Army in Cape Town during the second Anglo-Boer War. ... [P.H. du P.] Casgrain ... superintended its production ..." (Board, C. "Certainly better than nothing at all" : a re-examination of the Imperial map of South Africa 1899-1902. Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, 2003. Available online: http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/109.pdf (accessed 5 Sept. 2012))., "This map is not to be considered as absolutely accurate"., Projection not given., Printed in black and red., Map folds into an outer cover., The map is mounted on linen.
Identifier: islandora:24862

Title: Pan-Africa
Subject: Sustainable development--Africa, Africa--Description and travel--Maps, Mixed economy--Africa,
Description: Map of Africa showing illustrations of people, types of economy, modes of transport, roads, railways, navigable rivers, wireless communication stations, caravan routes, places for ship repairs, boundaries, and some descriptions. Illustrated. Colour. Scale 200 miles to 1 inch.
Identifier: islandora:30053

Title: Pan African Congress (PAC) supporter at a rally, Cape Town
Subject: Pan Africanist Congress, Politics, Demonstrations, South Africa. South African Defence Force, ,
Description: Memorial Rally - Some 600 people, many of them school children, rally at Khayelitsha stadium at a memorial rally for the five killed in South African Defence Force (SADF) raid in Umtata on Saturday. Police said the rally was peaceful.
Identifier: islandora:15675

Title: Two female Pan African Congress (PAC) supporters salute the camera, Cape Town
Subject: Pan Africanist Congress, Politics, Demonstrations, South Africa. South African Defence Force, ,
Description: Memorial Rally - Some 600 people, many of them school children, rally at Khayelitsha stadium at a memorial rally for the five killed in South African Defence Force (SADF) raid in Umtata on Saturday. Police said the rally was peaceful.
Identifier: islandora:15676

Title: Willem Vaalbooi and Willem Swarts at Norokei Pan outside of Upington, South Africa.
Subject: Vaalbooi, Willem; Swarts, Willem, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Salt pans (Geology), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Norokei pan is large and flat with salt excavations taking place. The arrow indicates the road through the pan to the dunes.
Identifier: islandora:27091

Title: Plot 23 [Side of Mele Pan Road above Little Berg houses - Aarendsig][23]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9305

Title: Plot 51 [Organ Pipes pan - between top of Ndumeni Valley & Catchment XIV][51]
Subject: Botany--South Africa, Plants--South Africa, ,
Identifier: islandora:9280

Title: Ostrich egg containers on a dune near |Haiǂgas pan
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Hunting and gathering societies--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Salt pans (Geology), Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: A pan known as |Haiǂgas meaning "pale pan". Pans can range from a few hundred meters to twenty kilometres in diameter. Many pans are important cultural sites for the ǂKhomani San. After the rains, a hunting group would stay around a pan to drink and hunt. Water was stored in ostrich egg containers, sealed with a straw and bees wax stopped. These are then buried under a dune for use later.
Identifier: islandora:27101

Title: Salt build up on a dried pan
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Arid regions--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Layers of salt build up on a dried and cracked pan. After the rains, the water builds up and the salt is drawn out of the earth. Once the water evaporates, in the hot Kalahari heat, the salt is left encrusted on the cracked earth.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:27014

Title: Report on a small pan site, yielding Mid Stone Age scatter.
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, ,
Description: Report on a small pan site, yielding Mid Stone Age scatter at Zewepannetsies, Western Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:22016

Title: Report on a site 800 metres inland, on the edge of a pan. Pottery and animal bones were collected..
Subject: South Africa--Antiquities, , ,
Description: Report on a site 800metres inland, on the edge of a pan. Pottery and animal bones were collected at Skipskop, Western Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:21918

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