Here’s a pretty well-known panel located in Nine Mile Canyon, among the many other rock art sites, known as the Family Panel. I guess that someone thought this lineup of figures could possibly represent a family, assuming that the family includes a scorpion, a desert bighorn sheep and some kind of shield-like figure 😉 No matter what this panel might represent, it’s still pretty cool to look at and study.
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.
A unique anthropomorphic figure stands guard on a smooth cliff face above Buckhorn Wash in the San Rafael Swell. The spiral design under his raised arm is certainly unusual and I wonder what it could represent?
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.
I just got home a little while ago from spending the holiday weekend in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Of course, my main goal was to visit and find some rock art sites in the area. I managed to find a few new panels but there were still a couple that I didn’t find on this trip. The photo above is a portion of a very well known panel near SOB Hill in Devils Lane. It should be familiar to anyone who has driven the Elephant Hill Trail and made the side trip over to the Joint Trail.
