This is another view of the second major panel at this site.
And without Lightroom enhancement.
As seen from the parking area.
This little fellow is a good example of a en-toto or totally pecked anthropomorph. It has a distinct head but no features are obvious although there is much heavier pecking in the area of the mouth and the eyes. There are no arms or legs but stubby hands and feet are indicated with four digits all round. There is a line on each side roughly at the bisection point of the figure. It has two lines drooping from this bisecting line and alto lines looping up to intersect with the stubby hands. A vertical line immediately underneath the bottom of the figure may be phallic or a 'tail'?
First I would like to compliment the person on the shot that killed this sucker. Excellent shot right into the middle of his stinking noggin.
Now to my observations. The could, well probably is one figure superimposed on another for some reason. I will describe the figure in outline form as the top figure as it appears to be on top of a more traditional Dinwoody figure or two. Frankly there are more fingers, toes, hands and feet than one can easily keep track of. The top figure appears to have hands of four 'fingers' each. The fingers appear paddle like and appear to emerge from a chest area. The head of this top figure appears to have a single 'horn' on each side with a row of dots over the head and another row inside the top of the head. There are two bold dots inside the 'head' possibly indicating eyes. Below them is a single line. The torso appears to be divided into a busy chest area and a lower outlined area by a very bold line connecting the 'hands'. There is a fully pecked 'owl' like figure in this torso area. A separate overlain figure? A part of the Dinwoody figure?? A 'baby' in the Dinwoody figure?? The top figure appears to have five toes on its feet. No legs are indicated. The underlying Dinwoody has two well defined and fully pecked feet with four toes each. Moving up the figure nine lines of 'fringe' appear between the feet then a shaded band, then a row of dots then another narrower band of pecking then an empty band and finally a shaded area. The sides of the torso of this figure appear to be defined by short horizontal dashes similar to the 'fringe' at the bottom. There is an extra set of hands around the middle of this collage.
This is not a really tall figure. It is two figures. The bottom one is and square outline figure with 'fingers' and 'toes' at the corners. The figure at the top is a Dinwoody 'anthropomorph' (?) in that it appears to have arms, elbows, hands and four fingers on each. Compare with the owl like figure to his right. The arms appear rather proportional here. Of course the legs are thin, stubby, and have three toes each. Arms are connected through the torso by a continuous bold line. Well the head is obliterated but it does not have horns. There are three lines purposefully emerging from the left elbow and about the same length as the fingers. The torso appears to be divided into two sections by a thin horizontal line about a third of the way down. Above this line are two parallel wavy lines. Below this line the wavy lines are echoed then two vertical line sets surround six horizontal lines. A horizontal line divides of a lower section filled with six vertical lines. There may be a tail of phallus under the figure.
These glyphs are at the right end of the panel. For whatever reason I will address them next.
This is one of the geometric or outline figures that appears with Dinwoody style rock art and clearly in integral part of the tradition. This one has four 'fingers' at each top corner and three 'toes' at each bottom corner. There is a bold dot centered above the figure and two smaller dots centered above each vertical half. The bottom and top lines appear intended to be straight while the left side and possibly right were intended to be saw toothed. The interior of this figure is divided into six sections by various vertical modalities. The left vertical column is fully pecked and defined by sawtooth boundaries on both sides. The second column is less definite with the bottom section fully pecked and the balance shaded. The right boundary appears to be intended to be straight defining the left side of the third column. This column is mostly fully pecked with a definite sawtooth right boundary in this fully pecked section. Above this both the left and right boundaries give indications of an intention to complete them with the sawtooth motif with the area shaded with sparse area pecking. The fourth column also features sparse pecking and has an interesting right boundary. This boundary is created by a single vertical line with a wavy line wrapping it from top to bottom. It also appears the previous two vertical lines may have started out in this way. Note that these wavy lines would not be suitable for making the sawtooth edge such as that on the right side of this column. (Well it might be suitable but does not appear to have been used). The right of this column is edged by a sawtooth defining the left edge of the sixth column. This column is fully pecked and while the right edge is mostly straight there is pecking consistent with sawteeth of the right side as well. The toes at the lower right have some shading pecking and there is a dot under the second column. They appear to date from the original. Significant???
Some interesting fully pecked figures here. The large one the left appears to be younger than the other figures in this area of the panel but still definitely Dinwoody. The 'head' appears to have 'small' owl like horns and is surrounded by a oval line. Inside the oval line sparse pecking may indicate shading. Also across the top of the oval are eight or nine tick marks that intersect but do not cross the oval. There around thirty sparse dots within the oval. Especially note that there are four distinct heavy vertical pecked lines in the neck area between the two hands. Each stubby hand has four fingers. The torso is more or less symmetric with two short horizontal lines to the left and also to the right. These are spaced differently on each side, probably intentionally so. Very stubby legs are indicated with three 'toes' to the left and four to the right.
Now those insect like figures to the right. Both appears to have 'horns' on the top and could be the start of owls. Both feature seven vertical lines under the fully pecked main area. There is no apparent features indicated within the fully pecked area nor adjacent to either figure.
The central figure here is of particular interest. Note the fully pecked figure at the bottom that could be a baby being 'born' to the larger figure. The larger figure is superimposed on this fully pecked figure. They appear to be of comparable ages. It is difficult to understand why the artist would go to the effort of creating the large Dinwoody figure that would overlap another figure unless it was intentional for some reason. The Dinwoody figure is very owl like. Note the large eyes with no pupils indicated. There is a pair of inward curving horns This Dinwoody figure has bold outlining around the entire figure and the head is boldly separated from the torso. There are three 'fingers' to each side of the shoulders. The tips of the 'fingers' to the right have lines originating from the them for a short distance downward. The interior of the torso features the full complement of interior treatments. The top portion is given to upward slanted lines both left and right. Under this section ten vertical lines are bound by two horizontal lines. There are two small horizontal lines terminating the right end of the ten vertical lines in this section. The next lower section features Three looping lines and a hint of a central loop. It should be noted the these lines can be seen as a continuation of three left vertical lines of the previous section continuing through three right vertical lines of the previous section right up into the lower right of the upward slanted line section. There are three lines in the previous section between the pairs of three lined used by the looping lines. In this section there are two lines intersecting the outer loop to the left and one to the right. Under this section is a bold line then another band of nine vertical lines bound by two horizontal bars. Under this is a final section of three large loops and the bottom of the figure. Under the bottom of this figure is a 'fringe' of eleven lines. Of interest, the feet of the Dinwoody figure are on short stubby legs and feature four 'toes' configured very much like an owls. There are three forward and one backward 'toes'.
The baby appears to be possibly owl shaped with tiny 'horns' on the head, a tapered torso and three toed feet. To the sides of this figure's torso are four horizontal projections to the left and at least four to the right.
Interesting little Dinwoody interior line owl here in the center. The head is more or less square and is pecked in bold outline. Based on the gunshots I claim there were two bold eyes in the head with no pupils indicated. Or maybe they were. The 'wings' are indicated with oval pecked outline filled with vertical line 'feathers', six to the left and eight to the right. Boundaries of the head, wings, chest and torso are clearly pecked. The chest has nine vertical bars. The torso starts with a single horizontal bar then a band of three horizontal bars binding and bisecting eight vertical lines. Under this is a section of four circles in a horizontal row then a horizontal bar that goes from torso wall to torso wall over a horizontal bar that is floating. Then there is another full horizontal bar, a floating bar and the bottom of the torso. There may be a tail or phallus. Under the left wing is a series of dots that may integrate this figure with one to the left. The sides of the torso are decorated with a wavy line to the left and loops to the right.
There is only one complete figure in this crop. It is hard to see but is worth the effort. It has no torso outline!! There is very bold pecking at the upper center left of the picture. It joins two clawing hands and encompasses a head with two bold eyes and a defined mouth. See it? The figure continues below this but without a torso outline. Looks sort of like a clown and rather whimsical. The chest is defined by a square wave and two circles on each side. Under this is a number of circles to the left and upward loops on the right. Of interest are left and right 'wings' defined by paddle like features left and right. There are four interior lines in the left paddle and three in the right. The top line of the paddle and the top line of what might be a torso outer line extend inward and downward and are terminated with circles in the middle of the torso. This occurs for each of the paddle like 'wings' in mirror form. There is a horizontal line in the lower portion of the torso then another square wavy line. Feet of three toes are indicated left and right. Hands on stubby arms with three fingers are indicated at the top. The superposition of one figure on top on another must be significant. Also significantly, the lower or original figure is not obliterated as one might expect in territorial marking.
Well there are two complete figures in this picture. One is the Dinwoody figure in the center of the picture and one is the outline figure in the background that more or less surrounds the upper portion of this Dinwoody figure. This figure may be recognized by noting the line emerging from the lower right of the Dinwoody figure and immediately indicating three 'toes' then proceed by a wavy line upward through the Dinwoody figure's hand to above the foot of the figure above where four 'fingers' are indicated. Likewise this outline figure emerges to the left of the Dinwoody figure just above a shaded area and indicates three 'toes' then proceeds upward via wavy line through a Dinwoody figure to another set of 'fingers'.
Now to the Dinwoody figure. This figures hands are connected by a bold pecked line right through the torso. Both hands are on stubby arms and indicate five fingers and likewise five toes are indicated on two stubby legs. The head of this figure Is boldly pecked, has two eyes and a single horn emerging from each side of the head. The bottom of the head feature is defined by a bold line and the neck area is filled with four vertical lines. The entire torso is boldly outlined. Immediately under the arm connecting bold line is a horizontal band filled with nine vertical bars. There is other indistinct pecking in this band. Below this is a partially filled horizontal band that has a horizontal line running about three fourths the way a cross and terminated by a vertical bar. Under this is another horizontal band filled with six vertical bars. Then a empty horizontal band. The lower third of the figure is shaded with pecking
Now a picture of how these look in reality without Lightroom manipulations.
Well this is about a fuilly pecked figure as you could ever wish for. And interesting in its own right. Note that the head has a distinct if small neck. There appears to be an ear treatment of some kind, Ear rings? bobs? There is some sort of 'hat' on the head. There is a distinct unpecked band across the top of the head representing some sort of boundry. Within the head is an area of very deep pecking roughly in the center of the head and it appears to be original. Two stubby arms/hands are indicated with five fingers each. Likewise the legs are slightly longer and five toes are indicated on each. The toes are somewhat paddle like. The torso is more or less rectangular and the left side being sort of a mirror of the right. By this I mean the right side has a series of rounded or hemispheric protrusions and left has rounded incursions into the torso. This must have been intentional as the protrusions are much easier to create. (In my opinion)
A nice little Dinwoody owl here. This figure has a very boldly outlined torso and head. The wings are not connected in a single pecked line. Each wing appears to have seven feathers and a large end feather. Although the head is obliterated is was boldly outlined and the bottom well defined with a wide band of pecking. The torso top is filled with a bands of six dots, six dots and seven dots. Under this section is a series of seven full width horizontal lines. Under these bands is a band of three(?) does and two bold horizontal bands. There appears to be indications of toes and possibly a bottom fringe. Another figure overlaps the bottom of this figure complicating the observations..
Yes there is a figure here. Only one figure is complete in this image. And it is an outline figure right in the center. The vertical lines of varing length in the middle of the picture are part of this figure. It has a four 'finger'ed hand extending to the left in the upper left of the image. From this hand going down find a stubby foot and three toes extending almost to the left edge of the image. Now from the left hand/fingers follow the line up and across difining a 'head'. Also follow a line from the left hand/fingers to the right defining the bottom of this 'head; and terminating where another four fingers emerge from a right hand. There is a series of dots emerging upward from the area of this right 'hand' that may be associated withthis figure. In any case a line emerges from the base of this right hand and goes down to intersect a bottom line originating from the base of the left foot. Here there appears to be another foot defined. There is bold pecking in the 'head' area that may indicate 'eyes' or a 'mouth' This figure appears to be under more recent figures.
And where we are. As they actually appear.
