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Title: Quartzite crystals found at the ||Guruxainâs 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, Quartz crystals, Hunting and gathering societies--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: A pan known is ||Guruxainâs (meaning "shiny stone within") contains white quartzite stones. These stones are used to start fires for cooking or protection. The ǂKhomani San would beat the gunu plant to make a cotton-like material that was then pushed inside a hollow bone. A spark from striking quartzite against the bone would like the gunu and allow the user to carry the embers from one place to another. 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:26984

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