![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peregriff.com\/wanderings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC_3678.jpg\")
<\/a>The site is painted on one of the flat surfaces created when this boulder split. That is a huge boulder, by the way – more than 30 feet tall.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Nearby is a outcropping with many bedrock mortars. This was a village site, too.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>There’s a thin ledge that you can scramble up to see the panel square on. It’s a long way down from here, but the view is worthwhile.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The panel is streaked with smudged pigment and washed away in parts but what remains is spectacular. Many of these elements are similar to ones at the Potwisha<\/a> site or the High Sierra Meadows<\/a> site.<\/p><\/div>\n Much of the panel is well-preserved, but parts are very faded. These elements are painted up high, emerging from a crack. This is similar to the “Bee’s Knees<\/a>” site, and may depict a vision quest. Shamans believed the spirit world was accessible through cracks in the rock, and they would paint wards or helper elements at these cracks.<\/p><\/div>\n Even with DStretch we can’t quite tell what’s going on with this panel, but it looks like several figures were painted emerging from this crack.<\/p><\/div>\n Here’s a part of the panel where rain has washed away almost all the pigment.<\/p><\/div>\n The zig-zag elements, seen on the very left, could be depictions of a rattlesnake – a common shaman’s spirit helper. It looks like the elements in the lower part of this panel were detailed Linear elements at one point.<\/p><\/div>\n Let’s return to the main panel. It is hard to examine since the colors are vivid and faded in the same area, so DStretch easily bleeds out some elements yet is needed to show others. This desaturated image is an attempt to find a middle ground. We can see another zig-zag rattlesnake at the very left, anthropomorphs, bursts, and various other elements, all painted in red.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>