The mystery of the blue ostriches
| Autor: | J. David Lewis-Williams, Phillip V. Tobias, Thomas A. Dowson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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| Zdroj: | African Studies. 53:3-38 |
| ISSN: | 1469-2872 0002-0184 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00020189408707787 |
| Popis: | A celebrated and widely published work of art, long regarded as a copy of a Southern African rock painting, depicts a hunter disguised as an ostrich and stalking a troop of these birds. The ‘copy’, first published in 1905, is part of a collection of copies of rock paintings made in the 1860s and 1870s by George William Stow who died in 1882. Many original rock paintings copied by him have been re‐discovered, and they show that Stow's copies are, generally, fairly accurate. However, no rock painting that could be the source of the disputed ‘copy’ has been found. Instead, an alternative source for the ostrich painting has come to light. Comparison of Stow's cartoon with an illustration in Moffat's Missionary Labours and Scenes in South Africa (1842), suggests that Stow forged the supposed ‘copy’, using Moffat's picture as a model, reversing it left to right and making some other changes. It was not simply an innocent copy of this earlier picture, for Stow passed |
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