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Site and People records
Soroti Pygmy (Forest Hunter Gatherers, Batwa)
Adamai I
Site
Brief description of site: The shelter is approximately 5m wide, 3m deep from the drip line and 3m high. The shelter as a small boulder sitting on a larger boulder at the edge of an old quarrying site. The shelter is relatively concealed by bushes. The shelter has a southerly outlook towards the plains. Immediately below it is a pool of water that appears to be as a result of quarrying rather than a natural formation.
Brief description of art: It is difficult to conclude whether the variations in pigment colour are as a result of several episodes of painting at difficult times, or whether they were painted at the same time. There are traces of red and white pigment of unclear motifs. The red is a very dark colour. Red motifs appear as smudges at the extreme left of the panel. All red motifs appear to have been finger painted, whereas the orange dots appear to have been painted with a brush or a pointed implement.
Olupemoru I
Site
Brief description of site: A very large boulder with a fairly long overhang and a large panel surface measuring approximately 7.50m wide and 20m high. It has a cave approximately 9.35m deep. North of the cave is about 150m high narrowing to about 100m at the end. The site faces north west and is surrounded by bushes and small granite outcrops.
Brief description of art: There are approximately 15 images in red pigment mainly covering an area to the left and center of the panel surface. These images are difficult to reach, approximately 7m above the ground and higher up. To the far end of the shelter is a geometric image in white that appears to have been part of a larger motif.
Onongo I
Site
Brief description of site: The Shelter is at the base of a large granite outcrop. The shelter is long about 16m wide, relatively shallow with a south westerly outlook, very close to the village fields.
Brief description of art: Red finger painted motif of an animal form. A single image occupying probably 1 fifth of the whole panel surface.
Otatai II
Site
Brief description of site: Small open shelter on a small granite outcrop very near village cultivated fields, but relatively far from the village. The shelter is 2.4m wide with a south west outlook towards OTA1.
Brief description of art: Circular motif in red monochrome pigment. Appears finger painted. Other images have faded a bit, but there are very faint traces.