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Bob Tregilus :tux:📷:copyleft:

2 weeks ago • •

Bob Tregilus :tux:📷:copyleft:
2 weeks ago • •

So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.

#Archeology #Desert #Canyon #RockArt #Photography #Darktable

A color photo of a badly eroded pictograph painted in a red ocher. There's two anthropomorphs. The one of the right is still complete and is like a long ribbon to two short legs. The right arm is extended downward showing five figures. The left arm holds what looks like a snake at arm's length. The snake's head points toward the figure's head which has two tall hairy antenna features. The figure has an open spiral shape in its chest. The figure on the left has a long ribbon body that is mostly washed away. It is bigger than the figure on the right. Two arms extend out from the body and point downward. The head is hammerhead looking with very large eyes. A floating snake points toward the figure's left cheek. In between the two figures, at waist level, are seven egg shaped drawings that have lines extending a short distance from opposing ends. Each appears to have been painted white in the middle of the egg shape. Above and between the figure's heads are four shapes that look like two birds flying above one another with an arch shape above each set of birds. To the far right of the first figure, above and below the snake being held at arm's length, are four circles with comet like tails extending off to the right. Two are above the snake and two are below.

#photography #darktable #archeology #desert #canyon #rockart

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