I posted a black and white version of this photo on Tuesday, but I wanted to go ahead and post a color version that shows more of this very unique panel found near Peekaboo Spring in Salt Creek Canyon. They are hard to see in this particular photo, but the white Anasazi pictographs are actually painted over a few very faint Barrier Canyon Style pictographs at this site.
I visited a number of new rock art panels this past weekend including the spectacular Flying Carpet Panel. This is another unique Barrier Canyon Style panel that contains a large rectangular figure with short arms that does kind of resemble a flying carpet. This is just a portion of the large panel of pictographs found here.
Here’s another pictograph panel I visited over the holiday weekend. I’ve been waiting for the Salt Creek Road to open up for a while, but the weather just has not cooperated, so I decided to finally hike to Peekaboo. I thought that this photo of the Anasazi shield-like figures looked good in black & white. If you look very closely, you can see the very faint Barrier Canyon Style figures that these were painted over.
Can you beleive that I have had this blog up for a few months now and I still haven’t posted a photo from the Great Gallery or of the Holy Ghost figure? The pictographs in Horseshoe Canyon along Barrier Creek are some of the most well-known in the world! Well, I’m about to fix that right now by posting this photo of the Holy Ghost with a couple of other anthropomorphic figures surrounding it. This is an outstanding panel and there is so much to see here. I have plans to head back there again this fall, and am looking forward to it!
The two anthropomorphs on the right side of the Perfect Panel with a two-toned snake to the right of them. These pictographs are in amazing condition and contain a lot of fine detail. This is certainly one of my favorite sites that I have had the pleasure of visiting. The figure on the left is a bit odd as it has two long but thin legs with feet, which are very uncommon in the Barrier Canyon Style. It also appears that those legs may have been partially pecked out at some point, too. Click on the photo to view a larger size over on Flickr if you want to examine the details.
