IDNO

P.85397.BUR

Description

Detail of rock face with polychrome rock painting frieze with herd of four-legged animals including a large eland in the centre, at Makumbi cave site.

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; near Salisbury; Makumbi [Southern Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85383.BUR to P.85419.BUR came from the negative box now numbered C139/7/ which was found inside wooden box numbered C139/.

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

Place: Burkitt describes Makumbi as “an immense cave about 100 yards long by 30 yards deep; it faces north and is situated high up in the top of a magnificent rounded granite hill (1928: 121).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 7/11/2006]