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Rock Art Nswatugi Cave (Nsvatuke)

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Located in Zimbabwe :: Matabeleland South  :: Bulawayo
Category: Attraction :: Rock Art

Nswatugi Cave is a national monument.The name Nswatugi means “the place of jumping” as it is believed that Mwari / Mwali (God) jumped from his home at Njelele Mountain over the top of Nswatugi Hill and landing on Khalanyoni Hill. Some of the most beautiful galleries of Bushmen rock paintings in the Matopos can be seen within the Nswatugi Cave. The cave walls are a mass of figures, humans and animals. These paintings are still very well preserved. Nswatugi Cave opens at the end of a steep gully, the entrance is only six metres across, but the cave extends fourteen metres into the hill and contains beautiful friezes of giraffes, elephants and kudu in a wide range of colours.

Two large shaded polychrome giraffe dominate the frieze with below a camp scene of figures asleep in their karosses. Below are six large kudu and a mass of figures including a zebra, crouched humans with others carrying weapons and lines of running hunters. On the right side of the frieze there is another polychrome giraffe and a group of zebra. Below the main frieze are a number of ovoids in ochre and red with stippling and white caps. On the extreme right of the panel are outlines of a zebra and the head of a kudu cow and on the far left are two superb antelope. Further back in a recess are two ovoids, or formlings and a feline. At the front of the cave are a faded giraffe outline, four antelope and a sable head.

One of the best rock art caves in Matobos NP with lots of paintings.

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Address :  Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

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