Well now we come to this unhappy soul. Probably mad that he has been chalked in. First note the tiny owl figure just above his head. The torso is just a large rectangle that is pecked to indicate shading?? The sides are difined by double vertical lines. There are two horizonal lines forming a 'belt' across the middle of the figure. The head is sunk into the top of the rectangle and the pecking gives it a five o'clock shadow appearance. Four fingers are inticated to the left, three to the right. The top of the figure is defined by a bold line interrupted by the head. The bold line may indicate arms. The bottom of the rectangle is also indicated by a double line and three toes are indicated to the right. The left was not captured by the photograph.
Here we have a much more complex Dinwoody style figure. Note the symmetry of features. The main figure is defined by a rectangular body but is surrounded by an outline. Hands and 'horns' are indicated. Four fingers appear on each stubby arm and the tips of the horns are split. Perhaps significantly the hands point down, the horns point up. The 'horns' are outlined with dots. There appears to be a large dot to the extreme outside of the 'horns'. There is some sort of head treatment of the main figure in the square. Maybe a short fez although that is not culturaly correct. There is a wavy line pair originating from each wrist. The one to the left is incomplete because the artist ran our of canvas. However, note that the wavy line pairs to the left and right of the figure are shaped very much like the wavy line pair to the right of the right hand. Significant?? Both the line pairs to the sides of the figure are terminated with four parallel lines. Also the wavy line to the left of the figure is not in mirror symmetry to the one on the right but rather a repeat of the same pattern abutted to the main figure from the opposite side. The main figure has a field of dots to the left and right of the 'head', with twenty six to each side is slightly different arrangements. above the head of the figure is a drawing of three horizontal lines roughly the width of the main figure with decorations. This drawing has a series of lines and loops descending about the same distance below the horizontal lines and centered on it and two rows of dots extending to end of the parrallel lines adajacent to these. The bottom of the main figure appears to be fringed. The interior appears to feature 'eyes' with seven stitched above. The interior of the torso appears to have another figure stepping out of it or emerging from it. This figure appears to be pushing some interior vertical lines aside. The interior has three bold vertical lines to the right and three to the left. Two strong lines eminate from the left and right side of the torso. These have multiple dotted lines descending.
And with a little more context. Note that the figure to the right is more insect like. An antanae to each side of the head, two 'toes' on each side of the base, six dots above the 'arm/, six below, and six in the interior of the left side. The arm is terminated with four fingers, of which two lines descend from the bottom finger. There is a wavy line to each side.
This figure is somewhat below and to the right of the main left high panel. Both the larger ans smaller figure are fully peckedwith only minimum detail. A featureless 'head' and stubby arms of four fingers each. 'legs' have three 'toes' each. There are three 'tail feathers'. Of interest there is a loop originating from the left arm down to the torso. Likewise there is a loop originating high on the right torso and looping irregularily back into the lower right torso. The small figure has no internal features, three fingers on each arm and probably three toes on each stubby leg.
The main left high panel.
I treat these two figures together because they appear to be connected by parallel rows of dots. The upper figure appears to be much better executed than the lower.
The upper figure is very symmetric. The torso appears fully pecked but actually is not. There is a fully pecked cross in the upper torso that defines four squares. The two top squares have two dots each, the two lower squares contain three. The entire upper portion of the figure is enclosed in a pecked rectangle. The bottom of the rectangle appears to act as 'wings' with two 'fingers' near the left and right edges. A wavy line starts at the lower left, decreases in amplitude and passes through and into the rectangle area forming a wavy line over the 'head' of the figure before descending on the right side, passing through the rectangle and forming a wave of increasing amplitude on the right. The 'wing' has four 'feathers' descending on each side. And there are two rows of four parallel dots left and right below the rectangle base. The head of this figure is actually open at the top. There are two 'eyes' and a 'mouth' but the 'head' is not closed at the top so 'horns' may be represented here. There are a row of dots over the 'head' and two rows of dots to the left and three rows to the right of the 'head'. stub by legs and three 'toes' are indicated at the bottom left and right corners of the torso. Parallel rows of dots connect the right 'wing' 'elbow' of thel top figure to the left mid-section of the lower figure. This figure is not nearly so symmetrical. One 'eye' appears to have a pupil indicated. There are lines above the head indicating 'feathers' possibly. A protion of the upper head is fully pecked possibly indicating shading. There are three lines to the right in the 'neck' area and also three lines to the right but they do not appear to be paired. There is bottom 'fring' but presence of legs, feet and toes can not be determined.
And as it appears without Lightroom manipulation
This is the first figure on the main panel. I think. I will discuss only the center figure here. I cropped the original picture wide so it will display the caption better on most browsers. In any case I have isolated this portion of the rock art and declared it a figure but all the figures are more or less connected so that will be addressed in a later image.
I would like to have a frank exchange of ideas with the person that chalked this in.
This is and owl like Dinwoody figure but it has stubby arms and five fingered hands indicated right and left. Neither legs nor feet are indicated but four 'toes' are indicated at each lower corner of the torso. Two bold eyes without pupils are indicated in the head. The number eight is indicated in several ways on this figure. There are eight vertical lines in the 'mouth' under the eyes. (don't do by the chalk). There are eight bold vertical bars to the left and right of the head. A second row of vertical bars may also have eight members on each side but other features were pecked over them probably in the original creation. There are also eight ovals under the figure. Note the three lines descending from the three left ovals. Significant??? The head appears to have 'whiskers' under the 'mouth' indicated by ten short vertical lines. The torso is divided down the middle with uprising horizontal lines, eight to the right and ten to the left. To the left there is a wavy jagged line descending from the left bottom finger. On the right there is a much more complex relationship with the adjacent figures. From the top, there appears to be a line emitted from the right shoulder becoming wavy and dropping to the figure(s) below. Then the right hand appears to hold a 'comb' and the top two fingers emit a line or lines to a figure below. From the lower fingers/comb are two loops and a line with five loops attached. And the figure has paired inward pointing horns. Just visible to the lower left is a similar figure, much simplified with a five fingered hand raised. A warm-up for the main figure???
And as it actually appears.
Now the next figure. Again the chalk is not helping us here.
First note the little flying figure to the upper left of the main figure's head.
To the lower left, is that an owl like figure??? And to the right are clearly two owl like fitures.
And the main figure is clearly owl like with two very prominent 'horns' and large 'eyes' . The arms are bold with elbows indicated and four fingers on each hand. The arms and 'chest' are fully pecked. powerful wavy lines descend from the left and right arms. The bottom of the torso is fringed possibly three 'toes' indicated to the left. The main torso is divided into two equal sections by a bold vertical line. The interior of the torso is filled with upward angled horizontal lines and crossed by rows of dots. Vertical wavy lines descend from the chest area indifferently down through the lower torso. A row of bold dots appears to define the right side of this figure. .
I will now address the figure to the lower right. First note that this figure has a horned owl like figure hovering above its head and another just to the upper left. The figure has a distinct head stubby arms and four fingers at the end of each. The head again appears to be topped by a fez and there is a line dividing the face in half vertically. There are lines descending from each hand's lower digit. To the left it includes six ribs but on the right there is none just a bold descending line. The interior is topped by a mouth or boat shaped drawing then a horizontal line with nine descending bars. preceeding down the interior there are looping lines then a wavy line, some vertical bars partially crossing the torso, then four bold horizontal bars. The bottom ten or more bars of 'fringe', two 'toes' on the left corner and two or more very long 'toes' on the right corner. It will be noted that these two very long 'toes' are connected or part of the next very important figure.
Not here the ralationship between the central figure and the figure at the lower right. It is difficult to tell from the pecking if these figures are purposefully connected. I actually think not. The figure at the lower right is of a different style. It doesn't 'feel' like the other figures. And it is not alone.
And moving on down the panel to reveal more of this new style.
Now look at this in black and white. This appears somewhat different than the other petroglyphs at this site. The rock face is not fully pecked but is fully exploited. This figure has no head nor any anthropomorphic reference that I recognize. It has not been highlighted with chalk fortunately. Yet this is a very symmetrical figure that was very carefully laid out and executed. There is clearly great symbolism in every element of this figure. In evaluating rock art I try to assess its importance to the figure to the people executing it. When such attention to detail and execution are manifest, I judge the figure to be of much greater importance. And we move on down the cliff face.
As we move on down the face this figure like the previous one fully exploits the rock face. Here there appears some possible anthropomorfic feature but they appear secondary to the execution of the figure. While low contrast makes this figure difficult to assess in this photo there are some details apparent. Note the top of the fiture has an elaborate triangluar head dress. It has a looping beaver like tail. It appears quite symmetric in the parts that can be made out. There appears to be distinct wings on this figure and possibly two large 'eyes'. Only an on-site artist will be able to sort this out.
And as these fitures appear.
