The renowned French
archeologist and expert on rock paintings Abbe Henri Breuil visited
the Paula cave during his 1950 expedition to the study the Rock
Paintings of the Erongo and commented on the Paula Cave paintings:
"The stone wall to the
left of the cave is vertical and rather concave. Behind the
paintings of some large, red-haired humans with relatively long
bodies, several animals appear, amongst them elephant and
rhinoceros. Further behind them is a group of black men with arrows.
These (paintings) are younger and visible only when moistened. On
the left side above and further back of the cave is a row of small
animal headed and very mobile people in red doing a kind of
mantis-dance."
There are considerable areas of the murals that are subjected
to direct sun-light and weather elements which bares testimony
to the ancient Busmen's knowledge and techniques for mixing
their paint materials.
Acknowledgements and further reading:
G1, R3, P1 my thanks to the Erongo Wilderness Lodge for their
kind assistance.
