Agamdwar Shelter

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified shelter (rock shelter or cave) called Agamdwar contains rock art (paintings) somewhere in the Mahadeo Hills. ROCK ART: NEUMAYER (1993 figures 50, 451, 615, 624, 630, and 632) shows -cave- paintings from Agamdwar depicting scenes of hunters and warriors. Depictions of men holding a human head in one hand and a sword in the other (figures 683, 684, 685, 686, 687) are extremely rare. The sword is invariably held in the left hand. The men are always depicted as running and turning their head backwards. The peersons wear horn-like decorations an their head, and very large earrings. The dislocated heads in their hands are decorated in the same way. The icongraphic uniformity of therse -headhunter figures- make me believe that all these picture scenes portray invariably the same legend. Figures of -headhunters- were found from three places in the Mahadeo Hills, Rajat Phrabat, Kites Crag, and Agamdwar — all in the vicinity of Panchmarhi [sic! Pachmarhi]. The figures of these heoes are in any case painted much larger than the figures adjacent. The depictions at the site Kites Crag are almost one metres high (NEUMAYER 1993: 258).