Holes · The Medicine Chest

Title

Holes

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Description

The landscape of the Karoo and the Northern Cape – the land of the |xam – is rich with holes in the ground. Below the surface of the earth burrowing animals navigate their way through the roots of grasses and shrubs, small trees and creepers. Holes are made and inhabited by scorpions and spiders, mice and shrews, suricats and mongooses. One of the most energetic of burrowers is the anteater whose holes, in places, transform the landscape. Anteaters are such active diggers and their holes so numerous that abandoned burrows are quickly occupied by bat-eared foxes, hyenas, hares, civets, bats, jackals, owls and porcupines (Skotnes 2010: 26)

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

url

https://www.curatorium.co.za/holes/

Creator

Pippa Skotnes See all items with this value

Date Created

2010

Source

Skotnes, P. & Keene, P. 2010. Made in Translation: Framing Images from and of the Landscape. Johannesburg: Jacana.

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Photo

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