digital photograph(colour)
- Museum number
- 2013,2034.7584
- Description
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Digital photograph (colour); view of painted rock art on a rock face including landscape and showing eight human figures, twenty-one cows, three dogs, two goats and an unidentified shape, all infilled in red, white or red and white and distributed throughout the panel. Some cows have patched coat pattern markings. Several of the human figures are depicted in a stick-style and hold bows, others are depicted in pairs, holding each other hands, the woman wearing skirts. A desert plain can be see, in the background, to the left. Tigui Tongour, Chad.
Scanned
- Production date
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November 1996 (original photograph)
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20 June 2006 (date digitized)
- Dimensions
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File size: 121 megabytes
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Resolution: 300 dots per inch
- Curator's comments
- Close-up of 2013,2034.7587. Images belong to different periods, the oldest corresponding to the Pastoral Period.
The Tibesti Mountains are placed at the northern-west corner 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
- 2013,2034.7584
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CHATDS0010052 (TARA number)