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.
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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
Painted Rock is located on the Tule River Indian Reservation, above Porterville, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. This site, also known as CA-TUL-19, is a rockshelter associated with a Native American Yokuts village. The site, located immediately adjacent to the Tule River, includes bedrock mortars, pitted...
After a long dusty drive to the trailhead and a short hike in open #desert I came to this large boulder with orange-brown pictographs that have withstood many years.
Mayak Datat - An Archaeological Viewpoint of the Hairy Man Pictographs - Bigfoot Information Project (www.bigfootproject.org)
Painted Rock is located on the Tule River Indian Reservation, above Porterville, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. This site, also known as CA-TUL-19, is a rockshelter associated with a Native American Yokuts village. The site, located immediately adjacent to the Tule River, includes bedrock mortars, pitted...