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WITH the view of safeguarding the evidence of antiquity in South Africa, the Minister of the Interior of the Union of South Africa has published orders prohibiting the removal or export of monuments, relics, or antiques without the written consent of the Commission for the Preservation of the Natural and Historical Monuments, Relics and Antiques (Notices No. 1571 and No. 1572, Gazette of the Government of the Union of South Africa, Sept. 20, 1938, No. 2569, pp. 955-958). The orders are made under the provisions of Section 10 of the Natural and Historical Monuments, Relics and Antiques Act, 1934, as amended by Section 4 of the Natural Monuments Amendment Act, 1937. The antiquities covered are specifically stated to be drawings, paintings, and petroglyphs of the Bushmen, or other aboriginals, or peoples inhabiting South Africa prior to the arrival of the Europeans, implements or ornaments known or commonly believed to have been used by them, and any anthropological or archaeological contents of the graves, caves, rock shelters, middens or shell mounds, and any vertebrate fossil. Further, the orders cover any objects that have been proclaimed, or are capable of proclamation, as antique.
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Preservation of Antiquities of South Africa. Nature 142, 1089 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421089a0
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