IDNO

LS.167773.LAR

Description

Close-up of rock paintings showing a group of hunters with spears and clubs around a herd of elands, making up the frieze on the west wall of Bambata Cave. [JD 10/01/2024]

Place

S Africa; Zimbabwe; Bambata Cave [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Armstrong, A. Leslie [Prehistoric Society of East Anglia]

Date

circa 1929

Collection Name

Armstrong Collection

Source

?Prehistoric Society of East Anglia

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

LS.167713.LAR - LS.167807.LAR were found unaccessioned in drawer S.318.

Publication: Image published in Armstrong, A. Leslie. "Rhodesian Archæological Expedition (1929): Excavations in Bambata Cave and Researches on Prehistoric Sites in Southern Rhodesia." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 61 (1931): 239–76, and captioned "PLATE A.
BAMBATA CAVE.- Typical group of paintings forming part of the frieze on the west side, illustrated in P1. XXXIV. It exhibits five superpositions as follows:- Chocolate on old yellow (Middle Bambata age); red on old yellow (early Upper Bambata age); human figures in red superimposed upon chocolate (Upper Bambata, probably middle or late); red on red (Upper Bambata). The irregular lines in red commencing in the lower right hand corner are superimposed upon the whole series of paintings, and these, together with the figure of the man running in the top left section, represent the most recent paintings and are probably of Wilton age. The zebra in the right hand top corner is of Upper Bambata age." [Source: https://doi.org/10.2307/2843833, JD 10/01/2024]