Item BWS-MAL-BUN4-12.jpg - BWS MAL BUN4 12

Brief description of site: The site is a large slightly overhung rock-face at the back of a flat platform halfway up the east side of Bunda Hill. The rock-face provides pleasant midday and afternoon shade but little real shelter. The platform has impressive views to the east.
Brief description of art: The painted frieze is considerable in size (over 10m in length). Much of the rock is poorly protected from washing and many areas of painting are consequently now faint. The motifs are predominantly linear, but there is a fair amount of variety. The pictographs are too numerous to describe individually. There are two main pigments used: red and white. One motif is in monochrome white, the rest in red. A number of red motifs are overlain with massed fine white dots or lines. These motifs are found in the most protected areas. Perhaps more were originally treated in this manner but the white is now washed off. This site is unusual in having some large filled red motifs; such designs are more characteristically executed in white. There is notable variation in details of method. The white motif overlies a number of red designs. Many red designs partially cover other red figures. The suggestion is of considerable variation in the age of the pictographs and of work by many different artists.

Gender: M
Nationality: British
Created by: azizo
Created on: 20/02/2003
Amended by: azizo
Amended on: 21/11/2014