WHY OUR KHOEKHOE POT LOGO?

We chose this logo to commemorate a unique archaeological find on the outskirts of

Prince Albert which provides a cultural link with our ancestors.
Two years ago Prince Alberter Gareth Williams spotted the pot lying on its side,
buried with its short neck protruding above the soil on Waterkop.
The post was completely intact, just as it had been the day it was cached there by a
Khoe woman or man many long years ago. It contained a dark glistening substance,
which turned out to be magnetite, probably used in burial rituals.
Local palaeontologist Judy Maguire was thrilled at the discovery. In her 45 years
of association with caves and cave deposits, archaeology, archaeologists, digs and
museums she had never before experienced the discovery of an intact Khoe pot, let
alone one with special contents.
The Iziko Museum in Cape Town, the oldest museum in South Africa, houses a
collection of only 34 Khoe pots and of these, only four are recorded as being complete.
The Prince Albert Khoe pot is very special indeed and is now part of the
Fransie Pienaar Museums archaeological collection.
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