IDNO

LS.70489.BUR

Description

Margaret Burkitt holding an umbrella standing below granite outcrop of Domboshowa Rocks. [SW 30/11/2006]

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Domboshawa [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

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: The Domboshowa Rocks and Painted Cave Site is one of the most substantive rock art sites in Zimbabwe. A huge granite outcrop is eroded and forms an erosional and wind cave, more or less large overhanging cliffs or shelters also called abri. The cave contains a 100m long panel of paintings which are well preserved showing human figures (male and female) and hunting scenes. The brown-colored cave paintings are about 13,000 years old, the black-colored paintings perhaps 2,000. The Stone Age occupation of the site is evidenced by numerous quartz chips found on the ground [Source: www.showcaves.com/english/misc/caves/Dombashawa.html [SW 11/12/2006].

Bibliographical Reference: Burkitt. M. C. 1928. South Africa’s Past in Stone and Paint. London. Cambridge University Press. Photograph reproduced as Plate V with the caption "Dombashawa near Salisbury: general view and paintings".

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 29/11/2006]