IDNO

P.64275.BUR

Description

Detail of rock face decorated with a group of hand prints in a rock shelter near Riversdale.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; near Riversdale; Wilton; Cave of Hands

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

1927

Collection Name

Burkitt Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.64202.BUR to P.64285.BUR and P.65862.BUR were found inside the envelope now numbered C123/4/5/. This envelope, which originally contained a set of 15 postcards of the British Museum, was found inside the fourth drawer (C123/4/) of the entire green cabinet now numbered C123/.

Bibliographical Reference: Burkitt. M. C. 1928. South Africa’s Past in Stone and Paint. London. Cambridge University Press.
Photographed printed as Plate VII with caption “Painted hands, near Riversdale, typical of the Southern (Wilton) Art Group. N.B. The spottiness over the hands is due to a defect in the negative”.

Place: There are further references to the “Cave of Painted Hands” on pages 51, 152, 154 and fig. XXIX. which notes that the hand prints are a feature of the “Wilton Art Group” (Burkitt: 1928: 152).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 2/11/2006]