digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.7252
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of painted rock art on a rock face, showing three red human figures depicted upright facing front, with the arms outstretched down and bent and hands to the left holding eight-shaped shields and spears. The figures have white lines across the chests (harness? garment?), and white and red lines around the heads (headdress). Around the human figures or partially superimposed to them there are six red and white cows depicted upright facing left, with patched coat pattern markings. Pastoral period. Kozen Pass, Chad.
Scanned
- Production date
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November 1996 (original photograph)
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24 May 2012 (date digitized)
- Dimensions
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File size: 124 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Part of a larger panel (see 2013,2034.7240 and 2013,2034.7253 for other parts of the tableau). Close-up of 2013,2034.7251 and 2013,2034.7253.
The Tibesti Mountains are placed at the north-westerncorner of Chad, with a small part of them running into Libya. The central area of the Tibesti Mountains has a volcanic origin, with one third of the range covered by five volcanoes. That origin has formed vast plateaus as well as fumaroles, sulphur and natron deposits and other geologic formations. The erosion has shaped big canyons were seasonal rivers (wadis) flow irregularly. Rock art was discovered at the Tibesti Mountains as soon as 1869, although it was between the 1910’s and 1930’s when the first preliminary studies started to be carried on by François D’Alverny. However, the main boost in the research came in the 50’s and 60’s thanks to the work of Paul Huard. During the last 50 years, researchers have found thousands of depictions throughout the region, most of them engravings although paintings are well represented, too.
As in the Ennedi plateau, the Tibesti Mountains engravings are more modern than those placed to the north, dating of about 5000 years BC, with the oldest images being related to the Round Heads style in the Central Sahara. Later depictions are very numerous, especially engravings and paintings of the Pastoral, Camel and Horse periods. As happens in the Ennedi Plateau, the Tibesti Mountains are characterized by the existence of different local styles, with differences between the northern and southern ranges.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2013,2034.7252
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CHATDK0010017 (TARA number)