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ROCK ART NEWS
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In Mali, Art as Real as Life Itself |
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Article from The New York Times by Holland Cotter
"Songho, a Dogon village and the other regulation tour stop, is famous for a cliff face covered with rock paintings that mark the site of a male circumcision camp. Although the village is now Muslim, Dogon initiation still takes place every three years, with boys coming from the surrounding countryside.
The paintings, done in black, white and brick-red pigment, are of floating shapes, some recognizable as humanlike figures, others looking uncannily like cartoon versions of recent communications hardware: televisions or computers or iPhones complete with small screens and keypads.
No one has yet cracked the symbolic codes here."
Left: Rock fragment with Dogan painting courtesy Quai Branly Museum France
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ROCK ART IN DANGER
Rock art is fragile and irreplaceable
"Africa's rock art is the common heritage of all Africans and all people. It is the common heritage of humanity. As populations increase and vandalism and theft of Africa's rock art are on the rise, this irreplaceable resource is highly threatened. It is time for Africa's leaders to take a new and more active role. We must save this cultural heritage before it is too late."
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2005)
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PHOTO GALLERY
TARA Image Gallery
Since TARA’s creation, it has collected images and information from rock art in 19 African countries, Over 20,000 of these high quality images are now available in TARA’s Digital Imaging Centre. A selection of 1,000 of these are now available in the TARA Image Gallery.
TARA is committed to ensuring the widest possible free access to images and information which it generates, produces and collects. TARA endeavours to provide access to past, present and future literature, documentation and images on African rock art; to ensure their preservation; to assist both researchers and the general public in discovery and use of the information.
Please contact us if you want more information and are interested in using these images.
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