IDNO

LS.70485.BUR

Description

Detail of boulder at Gokomere with rock painting of group of human figures, one with catapult/lasso.

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Masvingo [Southern Rhodesia; Fort Victoria]

Cultural Affliation

Gokomere

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford; or Burkitt, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt CollectionTeaching Slide Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The lantern slide was in wooden box formerly numbered 139 now numbered C318/.

Place: Fort Victoria is now know as Masvingo. [Source: www.mappoint.msn.co.uk, JD 20/9/2006]

Group: Gokomere were an ancient people who inhabited the area of Great Zimbabwe in about 500AD and probably built the complex between 1000 and 1200 AD. Burkitt discribes the Wilton culture and industries which consists almost entirely of pigmy tools [Sources: Burkitt 1928: 89-93; Jones. Neville, 1932, ‘Further Excavations at Gokomere, Southern Rhodesia’ in Man, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland, pp. 161-2. [Sarah Worden 14/12/2006]


Bibliographical Reference: Burkitt. M. C. 1928. South Africa’s Past in Stone and Paint. London. Cambridge University Press.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 28/11/2006]