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Alpha I 872
Site
Brief description of art: Snakes and fish.
Ameib II
Site
Brief description of site: The site is E-facing and on the other side of the Elephant Head Koppie about 200 m up the slope. The paintings are at the foot of dramatic, 30-50 m cliffs. Paintings are on two rock facets, one S-facing and fairly well preserved. The other facet faces east and the paintings are blasted by the sun.
Brief description of art: A detailed description of south-facing panel is as follows: One large antelope (kudu), stencil-style, in red, with a pronounced camel-like hump. To the right there is a springbok that faces left. To its right is a large, faint-red elephant about 50 cm in length. Two strange anthropomorphic figures, perhaps lying prostrate with legs and arms splayed. Further to the right is a grouping of about 12 canids, one howling? Two running to the left with tails outstretched. Their muzzles are long but quite rectangular-shaped, not tapered as with jackals. Somebody suggested that some of these canids looked like hyenas. Then there is another rock facet about 3 m lower down and to the south. The remains of seven anthropomorphs - 5 pairs of legs and faint heads and then about 75 cm to the right, a head and torso, with what looks like 2 arrows poking out at the right. The seventh figure is to the left of the group of five. It is very faint
Ameib III
Site
Brief description of art: There is a depiction of a buffalo/wildebeest.
Ameib IV
Site
Brief description of art: The paintings are on two facets and not well preserved. You can see some springbok, one has a white face that is still preserved. There are also lots of cores and flakes present.
Ameib IX
Site
Brief description of art: There are just a few images behind the bushes, south-facing and covering about 1 square metre. There is an amazing 'twisted' patterning of 'flecks' similar to those in Zimbabwe. There are also smeared blobs, one of which is clearly human and one single-legged and with a rayed head and a protuberance from the upper back.
Ameib V
Site
Brief description of art: The paintings are along about 4 m of the wall and consist of about 100 paintings of which some are still well-preserved. There are processions of springbok, as well as a depiction of a rhino and a frontal perspective of an antelope. Man on his back with hand to face.
Ameib VI
Site
Brief description of art: There are two possible felines, springbok, rhinoceros with human and 'lines'. There is also a resting kudu. The preservation is only moderate and many paintings are smeared.