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Shamans Gallery

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Shamans Gallery

Visiting the Shamans Gallery has been very high on my to-do list for a while and it was actually the main reason I planned a trip out to the Arizona Strip this fall. After hiking down into Tuckup Canyon I finally realized that goal when I was face to face with these amazing pictographs. The detail and colors used here is outstanding, and these pictographs are not like anything I have seen before. The big climb back out of the canyon was worth it to visit this site. This photo does not show the complete panel, only the right side of it. I will be posting a few more photos of this panel throughout the week.

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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.

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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.

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Petroglyph Cove

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Petroglyph Cove

I took many photos while exploring Nampaweap, so here’s another section with a bunch of petroglyphs all over the place. There were petroglyphs on many of the boulders in the area so we had to be very careful where we stepped and placed our hands while we explored the area so we didn’t touch or step on any of the petroglyphs.

>> Straddling the Border to Toroweap

Nampaweap Scene

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Nampaweap Scene

After leaving Paiute Cave we found our way over to Nampaweap to explore the countless petroglyphs found all over the boulders and cliff faces in the area. Nampaweap means “foot canyon” in Paiute. This canyon may have been an important prehistoric travel corridor from the Grand Canyon to the resources of the ponderosa pine country around Mount Trumbull. This is also one of the largest known rock art sites on the Arizona Strip. This photo shows a typical scene found at Nampaweap. There are plenty of boulders, petroglyphs and lichen in the area. We found a lot of petroglyphs on our visit, but I’m sure we probably missed many of them, too. This site will definitely require another visit or two when I have the chance.

>> Straddling the Border to Toroweap

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