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1612950107
Digital photograph (colour); view of engraved rock art on a rock face showing fourteen human figures and three unidentified quadruped. The panel is organized around seven outlined, pecked women of different sizes. The bigger four are upright facing left, with the arm to the right outstretched and the hand to the right infilled with pecking. The arm to the left is bent, holding a stick over the shoulder. The stick has three lines (leather strips?) hanging from the side. Some figures have three lines coming out of the heads (headdress?) and an horizontal, unidentified shape across the neck. The buttocks and thighs of the figures are abnormally wide (steatopygia?). All figures are infilled with pecked geometric patterns as straight and wavy lines, squares, meanders and, in one case, schematic birds representing (garments? tattoos?). To the right there are four outlined, pecked human figures upright, with bodies facing front, heads facing right and arms outstretched. Around these fi… (See Merlin record for full description)
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