This is an independent Blog of Don Liponi and some of his hiking friends in Southern California. We highlight the rock art of the Kumeyaay as they were the primary Native American Group in Southern California and Northern Baja California. On our trips we go further north into Cahuilla territory and east into Arizona's Patayan culture. Several times a year we travel to the Colorado Plateau or other wilderness areas with other ancient cultures.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Another variant of Kumeyaay art - enhanced with D Stretch. San Diego Country/Southern California Rock Art.
Rock Art lovers. The more I actually look for rock art in Kumeyaay territory, the more I become surprised at the diversity of this "style". This is a very light petroglyph in a catacomb shelter featuring several rooms. This element is on the ceiling above several prayer sticks along with some other features, mostly anthropomorphs. Most of the elements have an open box like feature. Other shelters nearby that have pictographs or petroglyphs appear to have been drawn by the same individual or a copyist. Is it possible, since the petroglyph is high up on a mountain, that this is some rendition of the constellation Orion? It apparently played a role in the Kumeyaay calendar. The "belt" of Orion is missing, but certainly the rest of the petroglyph is compatible.
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