SIDPA SHELTER

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A painted rock shelter counted by IMAM (2001) among the Sat-Pahar rock art sites (note 1). SITUATION: IMAM (2001) places Sidpa rockshelter about 6 km in an unspecified way approximately west of Raham Cave and on the opposite side [across the shelters of –>Sariya, –>Thethangi and –>Khandar] of the Satpahar Range, on its north facing side. SITUATION 2: coilnet.bitmesra.net/JharkhandTourism/Districts/Ch… (accessed 2007.11.24) places Sidpa … the rock shelter in Chatra District and to the west of Satpahar. CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: IMAM (2001) notices enigmatic drawings of deer and bull. Also found here is a perfect tattoo design from the meso-chalcolithic still used in women’s body decoration in almost all the tribes. coilnet.bitmesra.net/JharkhandTourism/Districts/Ch… (accessed 2007.11.24) confirms enigmatic drawings of deer and bulls, and tattoo designs still used by the tribal women before pointing out Another side on the road to Sidpa has hundreds of large stone bloks carved with designs of a female sitting on a lion's tail, churning butter and a hunter on horseback about to spear a stag.ks carved with designs of a female sitting on a lion's tail, churning butter and a hunter on horseback about to spear a stag.