digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.13653
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of painted rock art showing schematic figures of two cattle, both upright and facing right, infilled in brown, with a block each for fore and hind legs and no heads. A 10cm photo scale has been fitted at the base of the image. Chemarich Cave, Kenya.
Scanned
- Production date
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February 2003 (original photograph)
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31 August 2009 (date ditigized)
- Dimensions
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File size: 116 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- The foothills on the Kenyan side of the extinct volcano Mount Elgon contain many caves and rock shelters. Two of these contain paintings of cattle, rare in Kenya. In 1960 Richard Wright investigated a cave found by a Mrs. Tweedie in the Kimothon forest, where cattle depictions he compared with some in Ethiopia were visible despite water damage. This cave is now known as Kiptogot cave, about 50m long and 10m high, with the paintings suffering from water damage. Also in the area are two further cattle painting sites, at Chemarich Cave and Kiboi/Kiboy, investigated in 2003 by Emmanuel Ndiema and recorded by the Trust for African Rock Art. Several of the shelters and adjacent caves show evidence of occupation and Kiptogot was excavated by a team from the University of Glasgow in 2014.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.13653
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: KENMTE0020003 (TARA number)
