Digital George Stow
Image: STOW_081
Institution : Iziko (no number assigned)
Size : 680mmx508mm
Description : Five figures of mixed description: three of which are holding weaponry (one holds a large white spotted shield, another carries a shield and a spear, another is lying prone, another runs into/behind one carrying a club or stick and a shield). Arrows, sticks and spears in the background, some appear airborne. "From Great Cave in the Brakfontein Ridge Koesberg O.F.S."
Verso : "64"
Description in published source : “PLATE 38 LOCALITY. – As Plate 36. SITE. – As Plate 36. DESCRIPTION – This group and some similar black figures are on a separate slab of rock superimposed on old red. The copy is accurate; pieces of rock have flaked off the right-hand figure. EXPLANATION – A fight between a Basuto and Zulus, both parties being marked by the shape of their shields. Such fights must often have taken place in this neighbourhood in the wars between 1821 and 1828. Dimensions: 9 x 16 1/2 inches.” (Bleek)
Published : "Rock Paintings in SA" plate 38
Locality : La Belle France, Brakfontein Ridge, Koesberg
Size : 680mmx508mm
Description : Five figures of mixed description: three of which are holding weaponry (one holds a large white spotted shield, another carries a shield and a spear, another is lying prone, another runs into/behind one carrying a club or stick and a shield). Arrows, sticks and spears in the background, some appear airborne. "From Great Cave in the Brakfontein Ridge Koesberg O.F.S."
Verso : "64"
Description in published source : “PLATE 38 LOCALITY. – As Plate 36. SITE. – As Plate 36. DESCRIPTION – This group and some similar black figures are on a separate slab of rock superimposed on old red. The copy is accurate; pieces of rock have flaked off the right-hand figure. EXPLANATION – A fight between a Basuto and Zulus, both parties being marked by the shape of their shields. Such fights must often have taken place in this neighbourhood in the wars between 1821 and 1828. Dimensions: 9 x 16 1/2 inches.” (Bleek)
Published : "Rock Paintings in SA" plate 38
Locality : La Belle France, Brakfontein Ridge, Koesberg
