Petroglyph Rubbing Item Number: 2003-52/PE23 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Petroglyph rubbing on long fiber tissue paper with black ink. M. Hinman, A. 08/09/2005 From "Descriptive Catalogue of Petroglyph Prints for the University of Washington, from The Dalles Dam Resevoir, 1956." by Mark Hedden, in Archaeology Archive: Five Mountain Sheep with horns curved back and legs bent forward. One (Goat? Deer?) with horns curving forward. Large face, heart shaped outline, with headdress or symbolic decor of a vertical with two prongs from center of head, two straight horns, 'pitcher' ears and a complex of lineur face decor - consisting of curved eyebrows connected to a straight noseridge ending in two prongs, two curving lines starting from cheeks or sides of face and bisecting small eyedots and continuing (contrast this with diagonals in PE18. Eyes here curiously deemphasized), also lines from ends of eyebrows to outline. Mouth a roughly semicircular arc (ends down) with lower part formed by head outline. Teeth are indicated by short dashes.
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