So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.
@pgiulan@jqjacobs I've been to that panel several times. Anthropologists refer to those as Barrier Canyon style pictographs. Colloquially they are referred to as Fremont Ghost Panels. Regarding their meaning: Since I am not of the culture that created them I feel it is cultural appropriation for me to guess what they are, mean, or who drew them (men, women, kids?). While I extend deference to modern Pueblo people to say what they think they are, still, a 1,000 years have past & stories change.
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Ink rendition of the left panel.
Projected transparency, blueprint scale scanner, prints 8.5 x 11 at about 300 dpi.
My impression, the mud covers the pictographs. #RockArt#Pictographs #Utah#Archaeology#Art
@jqjacobs Thanks--nice! Still, I'd loved to have seen it a couple of hundred years ago. Clearly there are images to the far left of the left side anthropomorph, both above its head and below its arm.
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Likewise, my Glyphmobile wasn't able to drive in to Maze Overlook. I hiked in from the NW (see 38.2244, -110.0898) and climbed down from the overlook (take rope). To see more pictographs I hiked a loop, hiking out via Horse Canyon to my water stash cairn along the road. It was a three day adventure and I was very thirsty after climbing back up to the van on Panorama Point Way.
@jqjacobs Nice! We went in via the Overlook and camped a night in the bottom of the canyon. Did a day hike to the south end of The Maze and back to the Overlook. May have spent a second night in the Canyon? It was many years ago. Really want to do it again sometime! And yup, I always carry rope in canyon country.
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