San Rafael Swell Rock Art VIII
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO
After spending Black Friday in Nine Mile Canyon I spent Saturday searching for and visiting some new rock art sites in the San Rafael Swell. After a quick breakfast in Green River I made my way over to visit the Prickly Pear Flat pictograph panel.
The Prickly Pear Flat panel contains a number of very interesting Barrier Canyon Style figures. Unfortunately, the rock surface they were painted on has not held up too well over the years.
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Prickly Pear Flat Panel by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Here's another portion of the large panel that might be depicting rain.
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Rain by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Here's a cool-looking flute player. There's some of those flying circles at the top, too.
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Flute Player by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
A closer look at another anthropomorph that appears to be holding some snakes...a common motif in the Barrier Canyon Style.
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Puzzle Pieces by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
There's a few footprints and dots carved into the sandstone ledge below the pictographs.
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Feet & Dots by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Even though part of this panel has broken off, the main figure looks like it was painted to convey movement.
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Walking Forward by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
I really liked this line of stick figures found at the site.
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Stick Figures by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
[i]After hiking back to my Jeep from the Prickly Pear Flat Panel, I explored another nearby canyon and found a small Barrier Canyon Style panel. When I first arrived the panel was in direct sunlight and didn't photograph well, but I liked this small panel so much that I hung around for another hour until it was all in the shade.
The figure on the left has it
