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Yellow Twins & Square Man

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Yellow Twins & Square Man

After spending the previous two days on the Arizona Strip, I was back in Utah again and taking taking an easy day off from hiking. I decided to visit the South Fork Indian Canyon Pictographs since it was a short hike at the end of a sandy road. There were many colorful pictographs found in the alcove here and this photo just shows a few of the interesting ones. There are the Yellow Twins one the left side, with an unusual white and yellow circular design below them. To the right is a small square-headed anthropomorphic figure. It appears that the small red squares below this figure might have been part of larger white anthropomorphs. You can see part of the head and arm of the one on the right that still survives. It was a very interesting site to visit.

>> South Fork Indian Canyon Pictographs

Cowboy Shelter Pictographs

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Cowboy Shelter Pictographs

This isn’t a great photo, but it’s the best I could do with this very faded panel. I wanted to post a photo of this panel because it is the first example of Grand Canyon Polychrome / Esplanade Style pictographs that I have found. This is not a very well-known panel, but I managed to do enough research before my trip to the Arizona Strip so that we could locate it. It was an exciting find, but a difficult hike! If you look closely at the mostly white figures in this panel, you will notice that there appears to be some fine red detail that is present. There also appears to be red snake-like lines that connect all of the figures in this scene. You might need to click on the image to view a larger size to see these details. It’s very interesting to examine.

>> Late Hike in a Deep Canyon

Three Colorful Anthropomorphs

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Three Colorful Anthropomorphs

After our visit to the Canaan Gap petroglyphs, we continued back down into Arizona again so that we could stop at a few more sites on our way to Toroweap. The next stop was to a collapsed lava tube known as Paiute Cave that contains a few very vibrant pictographs. Here are three anthropomorphs that are all painted different colors. Below them and to the left is a large painted rainbow. This was a very interesting site to visit, but difficult to photograph because of the low light and large loose boulders. A tripod was mandatory in the cave.

>> Straddling the Border to Toroweap

Face Down Panel

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Face Down Panel

This is a very faded Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel that I stumbled across this spring while searching for rock art near Moab. The most unique part of this panel is where it’s actually located. This panel is painted underneath a large overhang facing straight down towards the ground. There is not much room to slide underneath and get a view, which makes it tough to take a good photo of. The location of this panel makes me wonder if the sandy ground underneath it might have been much deeper at the time it was painted? If you would like to see the orientation of this pictograph panel under the large overhang, check out this photo my friend Jackson took of me while I was taking photos of it. This was a really cool find for me that I did not expect to come across. It’s amazing what you can find if you just keep searching!

>> The Secret Grotto & More…

Skeleton Shaman Alcove

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Skeleton Shaman Alcove

Here’s another photo of the Skeleton Shaman which has got to be one of my all time favorite pictographs to visit. Not only are the pictographs interesting, but the condition of the panel is also excellent. This photo shows more of the shallow alcove that these magnificent paintings are located in.

>> The Ascending Sheep & Ferron Box

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