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Jamestown and Dordrecht
Jamestown and Dordrecht
- NT Pisa I
- NT Pronks Kraal I 100
Brief description of art: Site can be reached by a very rough track that leads to the top of the mountain (approximately an hour's walk). These are two sites opposite each other near the head of the valley. Site 1 consists of 4 panels. Panel 1 is very faded and contains the remains of 3 animals and figures in red and white.
Panel 2 is fairly preserved and densely painted. The top of the panel contains 3 figures with white faces, carrying sticks and bows and arrows. A faded white figure depicted just to the right of these figures. Field notes are unclear but another running figure to the right of this figure may be present. Other depictions include 1 reclining antelope, 4 quagga (one of which is shaded polychrome), numerous antelope including 1 upside down depiction, 1 bag, a 2 hippos, one of with a calf.
Panel 3 is fairly well preserved and contains a number of interesting depictions, including a human, a fish, an antelope and upside down antelope. Other images include cattle, 1 quagga, 2 running antelope (possibly springbok), and a hartebeest surrounded by small white figures, one in arms back position, and a white line. Possible depictions of white birds as well. Two large therianthropes with 11 faded white figures superimposed on top of the therianthropes. To the right of the therianthrope is a faded white figure, which is squatting and holding a stick in either hand. Below this figure is an antelope facing the viewer and an elongated figure superimposed on a reclining eland. To the right of these figures is a serpent-like creature.
Panel 4 is around the corner from panel 3. Content includes rear view of an eland with its head facing left. There is a densely painted area with many antelopes and some humans visible, although the area is not clear. Higher up on the same panel are 2 eland that appear to be charging at each other.
Attenuation (elongated figures) and therianthropes.
Brief description of art: Site is opposite RSA-PRO1, about 5 meters downstream, in a small, low shelter. Site is approximately 4.84 meters in length and 1.27 meters high. Site consists of 1 large panel only. The panel contains approximately 9 bichrome eland (yellow and white), a row of figures in red underneath the eland on the extreme left. There are also figures painted underneath the eland just right of the extreme left eland. One of the eland is in a reclining position with its head raised and turned as though looking down the length of its back towards its tail.
The panel is remarkable for a trance scene painted in a shallow hollow in the rock. The scene consists of about 10 white figures in dancing postures. Three figures are in a supine position and are superimposed on a creature with a white spine that has red fish painted along it. Red fish are also depicted below the creature. Below these fish there are 7 human figures. One is bleeding from the nose, 1 figure that has spiky hair and a stick is bending forward and has his harms forward, another figure has body decoration, and 3 figures are sitting. The circular composition of this trance scene creates a circular movement of the eyes. To the left of the trance scene is a figure with widespread arms that have feathers attached to them.