Petroglyph Rubbing Item Number: 2003-52/BR83 from the The Burke: University of Washington

Description

Petroglyph rubbing on long fiber tissue paper with brown ink. K. Meyers 7/31/03 From "Descriptive Catalogue of Petroglyph Prints for the University of Washington, from The Dalles Dam Resevoir, 1956." by Mark Hedden: Three concentric rings with centers, three short rays on three sides, & two short wavies on fourth (right) side. Design may be, to judge from similar painted designs, an abstract representation of a bird (duck?). Irregular, descending wavies, adjacent.

Credit Line

Gift of Mark Hedden

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