Several years ago, we travelled through Western Mono territory and visited a few pictograph sites. I had somehow not gotten around to writing about this site until now.
Continue reading“The Cure” Pictographs
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Several years ago, we travelled through Western Mono territory and visited a few pictograph sites. I had somehow not gotten around to writing about this site until now.
Continue readingThis is a spectacularly large rock shelter, but unfortunately it is extensively vandalized and damaged by illegal camp fires. On top of that, the graffiti that used to be there was cleaned up by power washing the shelter! Yikes, that couldn’t have been good for the pictographs.
Despite all this damage … if you take the time to look closely, you can still find the remnants of some pictographs on the walls. The number of elements is very low for the size of the shelter, and mostly consists of burst elements. This shelter probably made a very good living area during the summer months. Maybe that is why it wasn’t covered in a whole lot of pictographs.