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Banda III
Parallel form(s) of name
- DE3
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MAL BND3
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Brief description of site: Half way up a steep lower slope on the east side of Banda hill. A large boulder overhangs to the northeast providing protection to a small platform area on the hillside. Pictographs survive on the protected areas of this face as well as on the vertical front of a rock that blocks the west end of the site. There is not enough shelter to allow habitation but the site is pleasantly shaded.
Brief description of art: Degree of protection varied, most areas are relatively well protected. The left section almost certainly had more pictographs that have now been destroyed. Numerous pictographs, most linear or curvilinear in form. Shapes include: many sets of vertical parallel lines, 1 enclosed grid, 1 concentric circle, 3 concentric half-circles open at top, 2 circles with internal vertical divisions and another with horizontal divisions, a vertical sausage shape with multiple horizontal divisions, various short filled and outline horizontal bars with three vertical lines leading off downwards. All these motifs applied by finger using similar shades of red, 2 have white lines in between the red. There is also a single zoomorphic charcoal outline design (nyau - kasiyamaliro). Little suggestion of a sequence, though details in method suggest many artists, the charcoal motif appears to be very recent.
Brief description of art: Degree of protection varied, most areas are relatively well protected. The left section almost certainly had more pictographs that have now been destroyed. Numerous pictographs, most linear or curvilinear in form. Shapes include: many sets of vertical parallel lines, 1 enclosed grid, 1 concentric circle, 3 concentric half-circles open at top, 2 circles with internal vertical divisions and another with horizontal divisions, a vertical sausage shape with multiple horizontal divisions, various short filled and outline horizontal bars with three vertical lines leading off downwards. All these motifs applied by finger using similar shades of red, 2 have white lines in between the red. There is also a single zoomorphic charcoal outline design (nyau - kasiyamaliro). Little suggestion of a sequence, though details in method suggest many artists, the charcoal motif appears to be very recent.
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pl location th i: x502
Map sheet: 1434 A4
pl location th i: x502
Map sheet: 1434 A4
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When was site visited: 23/11/2003
When was site visited: 07/1993
When was site visited earliest: 23/11/2003
When was site visited earliest: 01/07/1993
When was site visited latest: 23/11/2003
When was site visited latest: 31/07/1993
Who has been to site: Smith, Benjamin
Who has been to site: Smith, Benjamin
When was site visited: 07/1993
When was site visited earliest: 23/11/2003
When was site visited earliest: 01/07/1993
When was site visited latest: 23/11/2003
When was site visited latest: 31/07/1993
Who has been to site: Smith, Benjamin
Who has been to site: Smith, Benjamin