Word: quagga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art work, whose humans are always drawn in the frontal, wedge-trunk position (as in Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little bumps on their chests and whose animals, the quagga and antelope, are far more accurately observed and gracefully drawn than the people. There are also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest...