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Object Number
2004.29.12884
Display Title
Drawings of rock paintings
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
written on board: "Africa / Rhodesia / From the Illustrated London News. Dec. 10 - 1927"; Printed on page: ""Rhodesian Rock-Paintings: A Travelling Band from Egypt? From Drawings by Margaret Taylor, B.A., B.Sc. (Copyrighted.) See article and other / illustrations on another page. / 1. "Normal" [San] work: a 6-ft. boulder (found near Salisbury, / (S. Rhodesia) covered with paintings of elephant, sable, wildebeeste, and human "thread" figures. / 2. Believed to represent an Egyptian travelling band: the newly-found / Rumwanda paintings (variously dated 2000 or 600 B.C.) - a complete contrast / to the native types in other Rhodesian work. / 3. Rhodesian and European rock-paintings compared: (Ai, ii, and iii) Capsian figures / from Spain; (B) a Cretan woman; (Ci and ii) A koodoo and a browsing doe from" (continued in remarks)
Department
Photographic
Date
ca. 1927
Artist
Margaret Taylor
Culture
- African
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Zimbabwe
Materials
Print, color adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions
Overall: 33.6551 × 22.86 cm (13 1/4 × 9 in.)
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