Safeguarding Intangible Heritage in South Africa: a Critique of the Draft National Policy on Living Heritage
Transforming Representations of Intangible Heritage at Iziko (National) Museums, South Africa
Vhavenda drummers at a cultural performance.
A ritual performance by Vhavenda women.
Sangoma Savumisa, a traditional healer performing a ritual.
A ritual performed by elderly women.
Showing respect - this posture is a sign of respect.
Traditional healers paying homage to their ancestors on sacred grounds.
Women of the Bo-Kaap community in conversation with anthropologist, Gerald Klinghardt, at an event focused on using historical photographs in Iziko collections to elicit memories of the Bo-kaap.
Detail from the San rock paintings in the Linton Panel. This figure provided the basis for the central motif in the South African Coat of Arms, acknowledging the cultural heritage of San hunter-gatherers and their descendents.
The Linton Panel of San rock paintings, 18th or 19th century, Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town. The complex paintings of the Linton panel reflect the intangible beliefs and cosmology of the San people, the earliest inhabitants of the African subcontinent.
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