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DECLARED MONUMENTS IN NIGERIA
Rock Painting Dutsen Zane near Geji - Bauchi State:
There are two groups of paintings on the main wall of large open cave
which offers shelter from the weather and therefore protection for the
fragile pigment of the paintings.
Altogether there are about fifteen paintings and although partly defaced
by people striking the rock to recover the powder pigment for magical
purposes, the deep red paintings are clearly visible on the protected
rock wall which faces South. These are the remains of what appears to
have been some human figures and cattle, horses, antelopes and monkeys.
Very little can at present be said of their age though, if the presence
of a horse can be established beyond doubt, they would seem not older
than about 800-850 years.
Geji is just north of the Jos-Bauchi trunk road some twenty mile before
reaching Bauchi
Declaration:
Declared Ancient Monument 23rd April, 1959.
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