Wentworth 500pc Personal Zimbabwe Rock Art Makoni DSC00094
500pc Whimsy Cut Jigsaw – Makoni Rock Shelter, Zimbabwe.
This is a personal jigsaw and this general cut will almost certainly be used for a 500pc personal jigsaw (unless you specify that you want a different one).
This is one of the best preserved and well-known rock art sites in Makoni, Zimbabwe. A panel of ~ 85 sq ft, painted on the overhang of a dramatic huge boulder, shaped like a cobra’s head (for scale, I am 5ft 6in tall). A nearby stone passage leads to a much later sacred site, a terraced platform built into a kopje. (A picture on Pg90 of African Rock Art by David Coulson and Alec Cambell shows the overhang more clearly in relation to the surrounding ground and boulders.)
Shamanism and trance dancing by the San people was first recognised to be a key concept in interpreting the (mainly younger) rock art from South Africa by J D Lewis Williams. Interpretations are taken from Garlake’s book, ‘A Hunter’s Vision’ (plates XXXI - XXXV). Garlake describes the current practice amongst the San, and discusses how this can be used to illuminate the much older Zimbabwean paintings.
Wentworth 500pc Personal Zimbabwe Rock Art Makoni DSC00094
500pc Whimsy Cut Jigsaw – Makoni Rock Shelter, Zimbabwe.
This is a personal jigsaw and this general cut will almost certainly be used for a 500pc personal jigsaw (unless you specify that you want a different one).
This is one of the best preserved and well-known rock art sites in Makoni, Zimbabwe. A panel of ~ 85 sq ft, painted on the overhang of a dramatic huge boulder, shaped like a cobra’s head (for scale, I am 5ft 6in tall). A nearby stone passage leads to a much later sacred site, a terraced platform built into a kopje. (A picture on Pg90 of African Rock Art by David Coulson and Alec Cambell shows the overhang more clearly in relation to the surrounding ground and boulders.)
Shamanism and trance dancing by the San people was first recognised to be a key concept in interpreting the (mainly younger) rock art from South Africa by J D Lewis Williams. Interpretations are taken from Garlake’s book, ‘A Hunter’s Vision’ (plates XXXI - XXXV). Garlake describes the current practice amongst the San, and discusses how this can be used to illuminate the much older Zimbabwean paintings.