Lengo Petroglyphs

Site Description

• Animals
• Weapons
• Various other signs.

• Eight antelopes, the nicest measure 1.50 m of long; very close to its back are engraved a spear and two throwing knives; two others are of lesser quality.
• Feline, two with round heads and raised long tail.
• Five very stylized and badly preserved animals, impossible to identify.
• Two birds of good size, perhaps bustards in mating positions.

• Sixteen spears with very long shafts.
• An arrow with a short shaft.
• Four twenty-one throwing knives where they can identify thirty different types. Some people are very simple, right and bent back, others contrariwise in the numerous branches show an ornamental or ritual research and carry curls, hooks and notches. They are for the majority more complex.
• A calabash provided with a rope forming a curl. The inside of the drawings is finely staked out, the well marked neck and outlines were carried out by a carefully polished trait. This domestic object serves even in the region of Bakouma for the transport and the conservation of water at present in small quantity.

  World Heritage Status