digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.12286
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of painted rock art showing stick-figure style figures of human and horse in red-brown, upright and facing left with human riding horse. Horse is bitriangular in style with shoulders and rump forming two triangles the points of which meet at the waist. Horse has fishtail-style tail and rider has arms raised with implement (weapon?) in right hand. Visible saddle and rein. Oued Jrid, Mauritania.
Scanned
- Production date
- April 2004 (original photograph- date digitized unknown)
- Dimensions
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File size: 116 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Oued Jrid is a valley with steep sides and cliffs, situated within the Hodh depression, encircled to the north by the vast chain of sandstone escarpments forming the Dhars Tagant-Tichitt-Oualata-Néma chain. Rock art research in the Tichitt area was pioneered by French researchers in the mid-20th century with the most significant contributions to study made by Theodor Monod and Raymond Mauny, with more recent syntheses produced by Robert Vernet. Many rock art sites specific to the Tichitt-Walata region have been published in relation to archaeological work there on Neolithic settlements, but academic research on rock art in this area of Mauritania south of that region has not been extensive.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.12286
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: MAUAIO0010010 (TARA number)