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VAALPENS (dusty-bellies)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 830 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VAALPENS (dusty-bellies) , a little-known nomadic people of
South
  Africa, who survive in small groups in the
Zoutpansberg
  and Waterberg districts of the Transvaal, especially along the Magalakwane river. They are akin to the Bushmen (q.v.). In 1905 their total number was estimated by the Transvaal military authorities at " a few hundreds." The Vaalpens were so called by the Boers from the dusty look of their bodies, due, it is said, to their habit of crawling along the ground when stalking game. But their true colour is black. In height the men
average
  about 4 ft., i.e. somewhat less than the shortest Bushmen. Socially the Vaalpens occupy nearly as low a position as even the Fuegians or the
extinct
  Tasmanians. They were nearly exterminated by the Aman'debele, a tribe of Zulu stock which entered the Transvaal about the beginning of the 19th century. The Vaalpens, who live entirely by
hunting
  and trapping game, dwell in holes, caves or
rock
 -shelters. They
wear
  capes of skins, and procure the few implements they need in exchange for skins, ivory or ostrich feathers. They form family groups of thirty or
forty
  under a
chief
  or patriarch, whose functions are purely domestic, as must be the case where there are no arts or
industries
 , nothing but a knowledge of
hunting
  and of fire with which to cook their meals. Their speech appears to be so full of clicks as to be incapable of expression by any clear phonetic system. Hence it is impossible to say whether the Vaalpens possess any folklore or other oral literature analogous to that of the Bushmen.


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