And another look at this panel
Another viewof the whold panel.
And another look at this panel
Another creature here. It has a 'horn' like head treatment and 'eyes'. A fair amount of interior lines and dots. I can not determine if there are hands or feet indicated.
This is a glyph style I have noted with Dinwoody style art. Sort of a stick figure. Some such as this are very abstract pure line drawings. Some have hands or feet or head dress indicated but all are rendered as stick figures rather than substantial bodies.
Another figure in the Dinwoody style but somewhat undiciplined.
Some of the previous figures in context.
Now we are getting down to business. Moving down the cliff dface from left to right this is the first panel with multiple Dinwoody figures.
The same panel manipulated in Lightroom to highlight the petroglyphs.
The first major figure on this panel is rather owl like. Two large eyes, two wings with ten veritcal 'feathers' indicated on the left wing and eleven on the right. There are indications of an additional 'feather' may have been planned on each side. The head features two descend 'feathers', one on each side and the head is heavily pecked possibly indication some sort of head dress. Two horizontal bars possibly connected at the ends may indicate a mouth. Additional pecking in the neck area is indistinct. The torso is made of horizontal lines, vertical lines and circles each treatment segregated into separate areas. The top horizontal bars do not go all the way across the torso but terminate on a vertical bar. There are ten vertical bars in the vertical bar section, four horizontal bars in that section and twenty one circles in the circle area. That is one for each 'feather'. Significant? There are three 'toes' on one foot, two on the other and no indication of additional intentions.
This figure actually has some attributes from other figures previously addressed on this cliff face. Of course there is the owl like 'wings'. But also there is the torso with left and right lines diverging from a central spine. Under these is an area decorated by dots and divided by the continuation of the spine. The bottom of the spine appears to split into a sort of 'tail'. Stubby legs and feet of two 'toes' each are indicated. The head appears to have a 'beard' and wears a head dress with downward directed 'feathers', two on each side. Eyes and mouth are indicated but no neck. The left and right wings are not connected with a line through the body. There appear to be some birds or insects about the head and wings of this figure. Six dots are on each side of the face and two dots under the right 'wing', three under the left.
The interior detail of Dinwoody petroglyphs really varies widely and this is the third wildly different interior treatment of the torso on the present panel. This figure has owl like wings with the right wing supported by two horizontal lines and left by only one. The wings have short 'feathers'. Eight such 'feathers' are under the right wing while the left wing appears to have two or three rows of 'feathers'. The exact number is indeterminate due to spalling. There are 'risers' going up from each shoulder. The head has no interior details but has 'horns' indicated and some sort of 'crown'. The 'horn' on the right is doubled while the one on the right is single. There appear to be three vertical dashes on the right side of the head, two on the left. There appears to be a necklace indicated. The torso uses a natural break in the cliff face as a divide. Above is two loops that wrap a vertical rectangle pecked area. There are three dots between the loops at their lowest point. Below the break there is a tail like feature similar to the figure to the left and two 'toes' on each side also similar to the figure at the left. The 'toes' here face out rather than in. Under the right wing are three dashes that may be part of this figure.
A preview of the next figure.
This figure is a good example of what I refer to as the disciplined symmetry and targeted asymmetry of this rock art style. Note the vertical line running from just under the 'mouth' all the way down to separating the legs of this character. About this line the head, arms, hands, legs, feet, head treatment, eyes, neck and torso sides appear purposefully symmetric to the extent possible with the technology. Then inside the torso and around it there are targeted asymmetries. To the right, this section of the torso is divided into three vertical areas by two bold vertical lines with pecking filling the bottom third of the first vertical column but no further development. To the left there is an elaborate wavy line that fills the left torso cavity, exits the torso and continues the wavy action until it terminates on the figures left elbow. To the figures right there is another wavy line originating on the right elbow and moving down the cliff face to terminate on the right elbow of another figure.
