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To: Coyoteman

Seriously though, do you have any idea what that image is supposed to represent? A fish perhaps?


49 posted on 08/23/2008 9:07:22 AM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer
Seriously though, do you have any idea what that image is supposed to represent? A fish perhaps?

I have long since given up trying to decipher these paintings. I have been out with groups to some of these sites and had everyone come up with a different interpretation (and frequently half of the group is local Indians).

Here is the text associated with the one I posted:

Plateau Pictograph.

Aboriginal rock paintings, or pictographs, are common through the southern interior of British Columbia. With few exceptions they were painted with red-ochre pigment, probably originally mixed with animal oil or fish eggs as binding agents. They depict a tremendous variety of subjects, ranging from simple maps, through hunting scenes, to mythological and spiritual figures. This rock painting, in the Okanagan area of the southern Plateau, seems to represent a supernatural creature. Such designs may have been created by adolescents on ritual solo quests for a personal guardian spirit. Most surviving pictographs are believed to be no more than 200-300 years old, although none have been positively dated. Source


50 posted on 08/23/2008 9:12:47 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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