Petroglyph Rubbing Item Number: 2003-52/PE10A from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Petroglyph rubbing on long fiber tissue paper with black ink. From "Descriptive Catalogue of Petroglyph Prints for the University of Washington, from The Dalles Dam Resevoir, 1956." by Mark Hedden, located in Archaeology Archives: "Spedis Owl." Bird or demonic figure with head & body as unit with roughly heart-shaped outline. Wings attached in rake pattern. Three toed feet. Lenticular or triangular horns, ears or tufts. Eyes as dots. Long vertical between 'brows'. Two standing figures beneath, one with arms raised. Small v or houglass abstract, which may represent bird or other tracks. On adjacent rock face, a round bodied quadruped, three toed, with bird head, and clutching snake in right claw. The image on the adjacent rock face was done as a separate rubbing, Pe10b. Hedden called Pe10a Part 1, and Pe10b Part 2. We renumbered them for ease of cataloging.
Geographical Search Terms
Eastern Washington Klickitat County Lower Columbia North America Pacific Northwest Plateau Washington State Western United States
Credit Line
Gift of Mark Hedden
Item History
- Collected by Mark Hedden on January 1, 1956
What
- Name
- Petroglyph Rubbing
- Identification Number
- 2003-52/PE10A
- Type of Item
- petroglyph rubbing
- Material
- tissue paper and ink
- Overall
- length 172.0 cm, width 100.5 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