Petroglyph Rubbing Item Number: 2003-52/ORE1 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Petroglyph rubbing on long fiber tissue paper with black ink. A. Arnold 1/30/2004 From "Descriptive Catalogue of Petroglyph Prints for the University of Washington, from The Dalles Dam Resevoir, 1956." by Mark Hedden, located in the Archaeology Archives: "Monster with body of two concentric rings & an oval in the center, all bisected by a vertical stem, which forms the neck as well as the center prong of a forked tail formation. Small heart-shaped head, with eyes, the only features, indicated by dots. Headdress of two hornlike devices curving off at either side with a short central vertical. Two u-shaped appendages on the upper portion of the body may be flippers of a sort. Other figures include, a series of concentric rings with two or three irregular appendages, and what appears to be a smaller version of the main figure, having one ring for the body with a bisecting stem, a similar three fold tail, and a smaller ring for the head with a central dot. There appears to be lineur (sic) extensions from the head but no clear pattern emerges. The boulder & the carving are weathered & considerably worn, and, as both 'monster' designs are shown upside down, it is possible that the rock has been tilted by some action, since the carving (sic) were made."
Credit Line
Gift of Mark Hedden
Geographical Search Terms
Eastern Washington Klickitat County Lower Columbia North America Pacific Northwest Plateau Washington State Western United States
Item History
- Collected by Mark Hedden on January 1, 1956
What
- Name
- Petroglyph Rubbing
- Identification Number
- 2003-52/ORE1
- Type of Item
- petroglyph rubbing
- Material
- tissue paper and ink
- Overall
- length 181.61 cm, width 100.33 cm, height 0.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 0.0 g
Who
- Field Collector
- Mark Hedden
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
When
- Collection Date
- on January 1, 1956
Other
- Accession Number
- 2003-52
- Collection
- Burke Museum Archaeology Collection
- Object Count
- 1
- Object Category
- Reproduction
- Object Sub Category
- Reproduction, Composite