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Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo. Hallucinations of animals were an important feature of the trance dances. Here a shaman is depicted with an elephant. Sandawe. Palaeolithic period.
Location
Tanzania National Museum/Dares Salaam/Tanzania
Unique Identifier
ART70880
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2501px × 3600px
Photo Credit
Werner Forman / Art Resource, NY
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Dance, General
Elephant
Palaeolithic (750,000-10,000 BCE)
Rock paintings
Sandawe Culture
Shamanism
