Manda China, Ennedi Chad (CRGB colour space)

3D Model

Model 12082018. On the 18 of December 1956, Gérard Bailloud discovered at Manda China a shelter decorated with beautiful pastoral paintings in a previously unknown style. He chose to name this style after Tamada, after a neraby inconspicuous dry watercourse. The bottom wall of the shelter extends over a perimeter of 92 meters. In all, excluding the tiniest undeterminable relics, the classifiable motifs amount to 110 paintings and 5 engravings.The rugged bottom wall of the northernmost shelter segment preserves few paintings attributable to the pre-pastoral period. The most interesting is an elephant. The southern segment of the shelter bottom wall is decorated with a very complex composition, possibly related with the funerary use of the area where the site is located.

Reference: Alessandro Menardi Noguera 2018. The emergence of an artistic canon at the Tamada discontinuity (Ennedi, Chad).