Digital George Stow
Image: STOW_052
Institution : Iziko (no number assigned)
Size : 1021mmx682mm
Description : Eighteen figures of mixed description. Eight of the figures are cloaked in some manner and occupy the central horizontal strip. The bottom horizontal strip features three white animals and two leaping white figures. Two of the figures carry bows and arrows (one seated) and four of the figures at the top of the page hold sticks. The animals are not antelope (and resemble bovids or waterbulls). There is a large round shape in the right top quarter of the page. "Rocks on the banks of the Nciba near the...[remaining words washed out]" [Two joined halves.]
Verso : "No 34"
Description in published source : p.71: "39. Longreach, banks of Lower Black Kei, Cape. 1/7 lin." "The effect of shoes and socks on the brown-robed, headless Bantu figures is probably meant to show anklets and bare feet. Note the leaf-shaped (Zulu or Mpondo) shield strapped to the waist of the man behind the hippo (both black). Shadowgraph men are brown." (Goodwin)
Published : "Cave Artists of SA", plate 39
Locality : Longreach, Lower Black Kei River
Size : 1021mmx682mm
Description : Eighteen figures of mixed description. Eight of the figures are cloaked in some manner and occupy the central horizontal strip. The bottom horizontal strip features three white animals and two leaping white figures. Two of the figures carry bows and arrows (one seated) and four of the figures at the top of the page hold sticks. The animals are not antelope (and resemble bovids or waterbulls). There is a large round shape in the right top quarter of the page. "Rocks on the banks of the Nciba near the...[remaining words washed out]" [Two joined halves.]
Verso : "No 34"
Description in published source : p.71: "39. Longreach, banks of Lower Black Kei, Cape. 1/7 lin." "The effect of shoes and socks on the brown-robed, headless Bantu figures is probably meant to show anklets and bare feet. Note the leaf-shaped (Zulu or Mpondo) shield strapped to the waist of the man behind the hippo (both black). Shadowgraph men are brown." (Goodwin)
Published : "Cave Artists of SA", plate 39
Locality : Longreach, Lower Black Kei River
