More Kumeyaay Pictographs from the Catacombs of the In Ko Pah Mountains

After 6 separate attempts to locate a site using the site record from the 1970s [pre-Handheld GPS], I finally think I found it about 200 yards from where it "should have been".  Relocating old rock sites is a great adventure and a very useful way to give something back to the avocation that so many of us love.  If you love camping, wilderness exploring and walking the same ground as prehistoric or historic Native Americans, it is amazingly interesting and an authentically spiritual experience.

In this one area of about 50 x 50 square yards was a complex catacomb that must have played a role in the local Kumeyaay group.  My descriptions may have little basis in reality, they are only for identification of the photo purposes.  There is a picto/petro-glyph of what might be a white sun design with "rays" coming off the circle.  It faces the morning sunrise.  There is also a double cross deep in the catacomb done in black charcoal.  In another image, there is what might be an offering wind pocket and below it is what looks like an image of a fish [Lake Cahuilla was within walking distance].  The little wall pocket right next to the fish almost looks like an offering "cup". A few yards away is what appears to be a pictograph "Yoni" with a pebble shrine.  This also faces the morning sun. There is a similar pictograph about a mile to the north. There is more at this site and abundant milling.  All of my photographs are copyright by Don Liponi 2017.  Please do not duplicate in any fashion without my written permission.  Thank you!