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A favorite rock imagery site of mine for unsaturated Saturday!

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A black and white landscape photo of rock imagery on a very dark desert vanish background. There are seven figures pecked into the flat rock face. The figures are light colored against the natural dark vanish of the rock. The main figure on the right looks like a person with flipper feet and a duck for a head. To the lower left is a smaller image similar to the large one on the right except this one also has a small four legged animal near its right shoulder. Further to the left is an oval with short legs and another duck looking head. Above that is a horizontal squiggle line. And on the far left is possibly the image of a centipede. (Note: I only describe these images in terms that my modern eye sees them. To the person, man, woman, or child, who drew them they very likely had entirely different representations and meanings. These images are likely 800 - 1,000 years old and none of us are of the culture that made them so what they are and what they mean is now lost to time. Also, the term "rock imagery" is preferred by the local tribes to "rock art" since not even they know the meaning or purpose of their ancestor's anicent petroglyphs and pictographs. Referring to the images as "art" is therefore considered disrespectful.)
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