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Zawi IA
Site
Brief description of art: The art consists of red lines and grids overlain by white geometrics in fine brush work.
Sumina XXVI
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a tall round boulder, providing little shelter. It is easily accessible and the images are on a hidden
face with no views.
Brief description of art: The art contains two faint red finger applied motifs. One is of a circle with externally radiating lines and the other is a set of concentric circles.
Sumina XXV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on an overhanging boulder, amongst the same scatter of boulders as ZAM-SUM23 and ZAM-SUM24. It provides about 6m2 of protected floor and is easily accessible and visible only to those walking in boulder area. The site faces into other rocks with no view.
Brief description of art: The art is Unclear and contains a single large animal depiction over a meter in length, species uncertain. The image is filled with red pigment and applied by brush. The front section is destroyed leaving the hind legs visible. This is an extreme example of an exaggerated belly style.
Sumina XXIV
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a fair sized shelter (8m2) and is well protected and could have been used for protection by small group. It is under an overhanging boulder set amongst same boulder scatter as ZAM-SUM23. It is easily accessible but not widely visible. Facing into other rocks, no views.
Brief description of art: The painted wall is covered in lichen, many of the motifs may therefore have been destroyed. The surviving motifs are one filled animal in red, small, intentionally painted over an open crack in the rock face, motif therefore splits into two. The animal is simple and undistorted. There are two faint filled red blobs that are suggestive of having been animals, similar to above. There are also a few vertical rows of red dots, finger applied.
Sumina XXIII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on a 2m2 protected face on a boulder at the top of a rise among a scatter of boulders. The painted face looks into other boulders and is easily accessible. The site is visible only to those entering this boulder area and there is no shelter. There is Views to the south and the near distance obscured by rocks.
Brief description of art: The site is in a poor state of preservation. The art consists of a single, large animal-like blob. Filled in red. Probably was animal of exaggerated belly style.
Sumina XXII
Site
Brief description of site: The site is on three faces among a group of boulder on the side of a small hill. Two of the faces have almost no protection, and one could allow shaded seating. All of them are easily accessible and none of them are widely visible.
Moderate views.
Brief description of art: Two of the images are mere red traces. The other has a grid in red executed by brush + vertical lines applied by finger.
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.
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 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 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 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.