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Brief description of site: The south end of the hill is almost bare rock. In one place a huge boulder has broken away, leaving a gap behind it. The paintings are under a huge overhang facing south. Brief description of art: The art is painted in red, white and purple and consists of red grids that are overlain first by red and white bichromes, and then by white grids and linear anthromorphs, zoomorphs figures.
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Brief description of site: A low recessed shelter near the north-east comer of the top of Sanchira hill. Low ceiling, but allows shaded seating for 4 or 5 persons. Good views over plains to north and east. Easily accessible. Brief description of art: 2 spread-eagled designs one covered with black dots. Also a few white dots. Daubed in white.
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Brief description of site: A large leaning rock-face a few metres above MAL-NTU4, near the top of Nthulu hill.Provides shaded seating and a limited amount of shelter. Brief description of art: A large panel of pictographs, all applied by finger in red. There is unusual variety in the motif forms including a number of complex motifs (see Photo 20). A number of motifs are decorated with fine white dots. Some motifs are arranged around holes and depressions in the rock surface which become integral to the overall design. In one instance, below a large complex design, it looks as if the hole has been intentionally enlarged. Rock is slowly crumbling. Various painted sections have clearly flaked off The rate of flaking seem quite slow, the amount of missing sections of pictographs is enough to suggest considerable age for the paintings at this site.
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Brief description of site: A slight recess at the base of a large rock-face. Provides limited shade and no shelter. Good view to the north. Fairly easily accessible up a short steep slope, quite well hidden. Brief description of art: 2 zoomorphic figures applied crudely by finger in white (possibly nyau).
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Brief description of site: A very large (80m2) and prominent rock shelter set into the side ofNarnzeze hill, can be seen from valley below. Ideal habitation site or observation point. Access is remarkably arduous from all directions up a near vertical hillslope, making the site well secluded. Very good views to north. Brief description of art: Very extensive painted surfaces, all well protected and well preserved. Too numerous to describe, see sketch. Left end has massed red designs many of which overlay one another. Some have delicate white dot decoration, a few have white fill. Central section
and right end also has a few red designs. These are the areas with smooth flat surfaces and this would seem to explain the positioning. On many other rougher sections and over the red designs are numerous schematised zoomorphs, anthropomorphs and a car (mostly nyau characters including - kasiyamaliro, ng'ombe, galimoto, kapoli and other bird and facemask characters). All applied in white, some daubed, some finger applied. Also 3 unique, finely applied, complex geometric designs in red and white. Applied by brush, I suspect, by one artist.
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