<div dir="ltr">Hi Aslam, the closest I have come to an indigenous map is a verbal route map or song-line that I heard in 2009 which described a route taken by herders from Pella in the northern Cape as they went from waterhole to waterhole.  I was able to follow the route during the recitation using your 1:250,000 map which had enough named points in common.  Unfortunately we did not have a chance to record the audio/video.  The herding route (described/sung by Oom Paul Waterboer in Pella) predated the shift in ownership in that area.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 July 2017 at 08:07, Aslam Parker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Aslam.Parker@drdlr.gov.za" target="_blank">Aslam.Parker@drdlr.gov.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Does anyone know of literature or resources that describes the depiction of space and/or maps  by African indigenous communities, specifically in Southern Africa.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Aslam Parker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:aslam.parker@drdlr.gov.za" target="_blank">aslam.parker@drdlr.gov.za</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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