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Sumina X
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a rough protected face on a medium sized boulder at ground level. The site is easily accessible but hidden among other boulders. The site has little shelter and no view.
Brief description of art: The art is faint and unclear in red. The art consists of one filled animal depiction & a small brushed circle. Also finger applied lines and crescents.
Sumina XI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a 5m2 surface in a larger rock face protected by a slight overhang. The site is set back at an angle so it is not widely visible. At ground level, readily accessible. Facing outwards from rocky area but into vegetation, poor views. Little shelter.
Brief description of art: The art contains an outline of an elephant applied by brush in red. It is done in a simplistic style but features are not distorted. This image is covered and surrounded by rows of dots, finger width & in red.
Sumina XII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a small surface above a 1m2 rock ledge. There is protection for one person sitting. The site is neither easily accessible nor widely visible. The site is facing out of the rock area with fair views.
Brief description of art: The art consists of rows of dots, in red. Finger applied.
Sumina XIII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a surface above a sloping ledge and has hazardous seating place for one person. The site is neither easily accessible nor widely visible. The site is facing out of the rock area with fair views.
Brief description of art: The art consists of rows of dots, in red. Finger applied.
Sumina XIV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a large boulder leaning to the east providing some shelter on that side. The site is sitting at ground level and is easily accessible and moderately visible. The site is looking into other rocks and has a poor view.
Brief description of art: The art consists of a ladder-like design and a set of parallel lines, in red applied by finger.
Sumina XIX
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a low poorly protected surface on a large boulder. It is an odd choice of surface since the other side of the same rock has a large surface protected by a good overhang. The painted area provides no shelter and is easily accessible and faces out of rock area with moderate views into vegetation. The protected site of the boulder could provide fair shelter.
Brief description of art: The edges are washed. The images consist of parallel vertical lines, finger applied in red.
Sumina XV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is reached along a narrow rock passage, near the top of a small hill. The painted frieze is a few meters higher up and visible at the end of the passage. To the left and right of the frieze are small shelters with low slanting ceilings. The images are only visible from the passage. The whole site is concealed and fairly inaccessible. Shaded and protected but no open floor area to allow habitation. Impressive views, looking across northern Sumina to Mwela.
Brief description of art: The art consists of a lion and a man with a spear and a bovid, in red all brushed. The depictions appear to be associated and suggestive of a single scene. All the images are partially filled with very fine artistry, animals naturalistic silhouette, male figure stretched vertically giving a stick-like impression. Above and below are massed areas of red dots, finger applied.
Sumina XVI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a large boulder amongst other smaller boulders and bulges out towards its top thus providing protected surfaces around its lower girth. Climbing on top of the rock, one gets fine views over Sumina and Mwela. The site is easily accessible and the top is widely visible.
Brief description of art: The art consists of merely a few red pigment traces, of what appear to have been lines, applied by finger.
Sumina XVII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a protected surface on the south side of a circular boulder. It is easily accessible and fairly widely visible and has no shelter. At south east limit of Sumina facing outwards, has good views over stream valley to the south.
Brief description of art: The images consist of one bat-like motif, filled in red, probably applied by finger. This image is accompanied by sets of vertical lines applied by finger, in red. There is also a stretched circle, finger applied. The left and right ends are both extensively washed.
Sumina XVIII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a poorly protected surface on a small boulder immediately south-west of ZAM-SUM17. It is easily accessible and fairly widely visible. There is no shelter and it is at the south east limit of Sumina facing outwards it has good views over stream valley to the south.
Brief description of art: The images consist of a few rows of dots applied by finger, in red.
Sumina XX
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a 1m2 protected surface on a narrow boulder sitting at ground level and has no shelter. It is immediately accessible and reasonably visible. Facing into other rocks and has no view.
Brief description of art: The art consists of dots and lines in red. Finger applied.
Sumina XXI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a small surface on large boulder partially hidden from view by a rock in front of it. There is no shelter. And it is immediately accessible with no view.
Brief description of art: The art is very faint. The images consist of red dots, finger applied and larger smudges of red pigment.