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Brief description of site: A boulder at the base of Mwana Wa Chencherere with a recess in its southern side. Recess deep enough to provide shade and protection but, with the two larger recessed shelters nearby, this seems unlikely to have been used for habitation. Looking into trees. Brief description of art: Pictographs on back ledge of recess. Rock surface has been extensively graffitied during recent times with names and scribblings in charcoal. There are also a few outline zoomorphic designs in similar charcoal (nyau - kasiyamaliro). Now very faint having been damaged by extensive graffiti and fire, there are traces of a set of concentric circles and parallel lines, applied by finger in red.
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Brief description of site: A boulder near the base of Mwana Wa Chencherere on its southern side behindDE23. Boulder leans to the south providing a small sheltered area and a good protected
surface. Site not suited to habitation. Looking into DE23 and trees.
Brief description of art: A few spread-eagled designs, a snake-like meander and a set of parallel lines
applied by daubing in white. Also a row of circles applied by finger in red filled with white
(now faint) and other faint red traces. Some white designs over red stains, suggestive that
white is more recent. White motifs vary in style and standard of preservation. Suggestive of
execution by various artists over a long period oftime.
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Brief description of site: A small recessed shelter (12m2 of protected floor) half way up the western side ofChencherere main hill. Shaded, secluded and protected with fine view to the west.
Excellent observation point for game movements in valley area to the west. Site ideal for
habitation. Roofheavily smoke blackened, suggesting much use.
Brief description of art: Back wall of shelter now smothered by recent graffiti in black charcoal. There
are a few outline zoomorpic designs also in charcoal (mostly nyau - kasiyamaliro). Under
these can be made out the faint remnants a few concentric circles and a sets of paralle1lines,
all applied by finger in red and filled with white. These earlier motifs may have been much
more extensive but appear mostly to have been destroyed.
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Brief description of site: A well hidden shelter near the top of Chibenthu hill in the form of a wide coveredpassage way between two large boulders. East end is a shear cliff face with fine views over
valley area to Chencherere. Ideal secluded habitation/hiding place. Local people say that the
shelter used to be used for storing nyau constructions. When we visited shelter it had been
used recently. Signs of bedding, a bat catching net and a large rack for barbecuing bats.
Brief description of art: 6 unusual designs. 4 appear to depict humans. 1 is a zoomorphic design and the other appears to be a human riding some form of animal. All are very simple and crude applied by daubing in white. All are in similar well preserved state of preservation but
variation in artistic style suggest6 work of various painters. (Members of my team offered the opinion that these pictographs depicted nyau characters).
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Brief description of site: A small boulder half way up the eastern slope of Chibenthu hill near its northern comer. Slightly overhanging providing a protected surface but no shade or shelter. Viewinto trees.
Brief description of art: A thick horizontal red line, the right hand end of which has been eroded. The left hand end has two short vertical bars attached to its base like legs.
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Brief description of site: A large boulder at the base of Chibenthu hill near its south-west comer. Boulder leans south-east providing a very large protected surface and pleasant shaded floor area. Protected surface looks into hillside. Brief description of art: The surface is said to have been extensively covered by pictographs up until a few years ago. Then the protection provided by the rock was used to assist the making charcoal. This involves the creation of very hot fires and led to near total exfoliation of the painted rock surface. All that remains are a few traces oflines applied by finger in red.
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Brief description of art: The painting contains 7 human figures (2 are therianthropes and 3 are only partially visible), 2 undetermined animals (1 with lines in body coming out of stomach) and the hindquarters of 1 animal.
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Brief description of art: The paintings contains: 7 human figures; 1 kneeling, 2 lying down below a rhino, 2 female figures with back aprons, 1 holding a stick. 3 undetermined antelope, 1 rhino, 3 bags, 2 undetermined shapes.