THE TSISAB RAVINE and other Brandberg Sites (1959) - edition limited to 1,146 copies

Publisher's ochre cloth hard cover with titles in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket.

Contents clean and binding solid. Minimal age-associated edge wear to the jacket.

Volume three in the series "The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa.

"THE TSISAB RAVINE in the Brandberg Mountain range of South-West Africa, which is the site of the famous 'White Lady of the Brandberg' is also the site of a great number of painted rock shelters clustered together nearby. These are described in the present volume. Unlike the 'White Lady', which depicts a single ceremonial procession, they show an amazing variety of subjects, ranging from some of the finest rock paintings of animals in Southern Africa to scenes of vivid human and ethnological interest - scenes as diverse as the woman 'taken in adultery' in Jochmann Shelter, the charming Hottentot musicians in the 'Girls' School', and the spectacle of Death dismembering his victims in Skeleton Shelter.

The Abbé Breuil and his companions camped in the Tsisab Ravine in 1947 and again in 1948, in order to study the sites at first hand and to take tracings directly from the rock face. The present volume is the outcome of their labours: the Abbé's colour copies are reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process in 77 plates, including one double-page, and are documented by 50 photographs reproduced in monochrome collotype, including two double-page photo-montages. The volume contains introductory and topographical material, as well as a detailed description of the plates.

In recent years expeditions have been made into the upper and eastern reaches of the Brandberg, resulting in the discovery of a number of painted rock sites, some of them extremely important. These are described in a separate chapter, and reproductions of 39 photographs and copies of the paintings are included."