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BWS BWS-BWS-MAL-BUN1-1P.jpg
Title
BWS MAL BUN1 1P
Date(s)
- 01/1987 (Creation)
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Ground Material: Photographic paper
Original size: 12.4 x 8.02cm
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Brief description of site: A large recessed shelter on the lower slopes of Bunda hill east side. Very well protected and large enough to make a good habitation site for a family group (floor area over 30m²). Extensive soot deposits on ceiling suggest that it has been regularly used. Depending on vegetation may have had a fair view into stream valley and beyond.
Brief description of art: Many traces of white pictographs on ceiling all severely blackened by soot. Include: various spread-eagled motifs, a meandering snake-like line, a few dots, a circle with a single internal vertical division, and a small human-like design that looks like a depiction of a baby. All daubed in white. At entrance to shelter is an area of massed dots applied by finger in red.
Brief description of art: Many traces of white pictographs on ceiling all severely blackened by soot. Include: various spread-eagled motifs, a meandering snake-like line, a few dots, a circle with a single internal vertical division, and a small human-like design that looks like a depiction of a baby. All daubed in white. At entrance to shelter is an area of massed dots applied by finger in red.
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Open to all
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- English
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Medium format: Color print (photographic)
Original size: 12.4 x 8.02cm
Original size: 12.4 x 8.02cm
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Benjamin Smith
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- Dedza » Central Region » Malawi » Bunda I
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