You are welcome to join us for an Archaeological Society Talk at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg at 10.30 am on Saturday 26th August 2023. The address is 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street, Pietermaritzburg.
SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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Filling in the blanks: three painted panels from Upper Cingati
Justine Wintjes
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
In 2003 Meridy Pfotenhauer recorded a small painted rock shelter in the upper eBusingatha Valley, northern KZN Drakensberg. She saw that one of the walls had been vandalized – it was covered with chisel marks framing three rectangular patches. In my research on the larger and more famous site of eBusingatha (uMhwabane) in archives on two continents, I caught a few glimpses of what the small shelter used to look like. This ultimately led me to link this rock shelter with three unprovenanced panels in the collections the Old Court House Museum in Durban. Through digital imaging it possible to visualize something of the earlier painted world of the rock shelter.
The three actual pieces will be on display at this talk.
Please contact Ghilraen Laue (glaue@nmsa.org.za) if you would like to attend.