IDNO

T.177764.JCP

Description

On typed listing "43.26; "Mural Museum; Zambia; Southern; mural; Livingstone Museum; art; painting; present

Mural depicting a dark sky with stars, the sun and an (eclipsing? moon) and a landscape with a number of animals and people, drawn in dark red and blacks and other warm colours.
The mural depicts five birds in the focus, the head of a chicken, with its wings spread out across the painting blending in with the background, a red bird with a black and white plume and a red crown and a small owl perched on a leafless tree. The final two birds are silhouetted by the sun, but may be some kind of crane or heron. A number of other land animals are present, a zebra and elephant on one side, and a lion, two gazelle, a rhinoceros and two ox on the other. In the very foreground is a man laying on his back with his hand up above of his face and a woman in the hollow of the dead tree. The landscape is drawn in blacks browns and reds, and combined with the dark and dead foliage may imply some kind of wildfire or drought. In the background there is a clearer but pale and dusky sky, with hills and rivers and a depiction of a house on stilts. [FG 03/07/2025]

Place

S Africa; Zambia; Southern Province; Livingstone District

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Chaplin, Jim

Collector / Expedition

Date

31 May 1961

Collection Name

Chaplin Collection

Source

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.177259.JCP - T.178787.JCP were located together in a apple box, now numbered C796/.

T.177259.JCP - ?T.79511240.JCP were located in a red box now numbered C795/2/.

T.79524001.JCP - T.79524100.JCP were located in a slide drawer now numbered C795/2/4.