digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.12962
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of engraved rock art on soapstone boulder with polished surface and edges incised with multiple parallel polished incised lines producing a scalloped effect, particularly on the left. Graffiti (recent?) in Roman script in the centre of the flat top surface includes Roman script, with “R” visible at upper centre and “EM...”. The lower flat surface exhibits pecking marks and further incisions. A hand is touching the boulder at the right of the image. Sameta, Kenya.
Born digital
- Production date
- 02 August 2011
- Dimensions
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File size: 69.90 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- The rock art around the Kenyan section of Lake Victoria consists largely of geometric paintings, cupules and rock gongs, with a particular concentration on Mfangano Island, first documented by J.H. Chaplin in the 1960s.
Generally believed to have been produced by ancient hunter-gatherers, the painting sites have continued to have symbolic significance to the resident Abasuba peoples until recently, with some of the cupule sites referred to as game boards for Mancala.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.12962
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: KENKIS0030004 (TARA number)