stow_069
Metadata
Title
stow_069
Collection
Digital George Stow
Type
image
Size
676 (h)x1014mm(w)
Description
[OS - two joined halves] Eighteen figures engaged in warfare, brandishing weaponry (knobkerries, spears, sticks, bows and arrows); six appear wounded or dead, impaled on sticks or spears with blood depicted. Some of the figures bear patterned shields, have patterned bodies and wear ornamentation and headresses. Spears and arrows are depicted across the painting as if flying through the air. "From great cave in outlying Ridge at Brakfontein Koesberg. O.F.S."
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