Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

Pictograph shelter:

It’s interesting to try to pick apart this site at least a little bit.  The black drawings are very very carefully fine and seem to use some kind of a brush or more likely a sharpened tool (like a charcoal pencil) to create the very small, very detailed designed.  They also included what appear to be horses, dating them post-contact.  In contrast the red pigmented drawing appear almost universally on top of the black, often completely obscuring what was there, and done in a more heavy handed style.  It’s interesting to ponder over whether there was a particular reason for this.  Hiding secrets?  Breaking the old magic?  Personal disagreement?  Different group moving in and wiping out the old?  Curious. 

Three Horses.  And possibly a rocket ship?





This little guy is my favorite.  He’s only a couple inches tall!  He is almost exactly the same as many many alien/shaman figures I’ve seen across UT (but especially in San Raphael Swell). Square head, antenna, long fingers, lacking the usually every-present large phallus.  I’ve never seen this figure this far west.  But I’ll definitely be keeping my eyes out now!



Now this figure I have seen in DV.  In one of my earlier posts he’s seen as a large petroglyphs in a different part of the park.  He’s also seen UT at the Wolfman panel and several other places.  Arms wide, large claws, shorter legs.


Seems like several styles here in black. 


Here are the ones with red heavily applied over the black.  I tried a few in DStretch to see what I could see.  DStretch works much better to make the reds more distinguishable than the blacks, so it’s not much help for pulling the covered images out.  Great for making the red designs pop though!