Art by Calvin Thomas 2014, Canyon de Chelly
Left to right for petroglyphs of what the guy told me.
-Night and day.
-The the 3 rings around the dot means it was painted in the third (some would say fourth) world
Elk, antelope???, and deer with body's as baskets because that's what they made them out of, and the deer tracks.
-The paddle looking thing is the Kiva (sacred hut).
-The four directions.
-The male and female.
-God, and/or the first world.
-I forget the rectangular line meaning
-The scorpion: They didn't have a defense in the previous worlds against scorpion.
-The medicine man with his feathers (and how many people he has healed).
-The necklace of the medicine man, and he is holding a crying baby (complicated story and there and probably differing opinions on it).
-When there are multiple paintings very close to each other it's not suppose to be just random scribble scrabble. It is their writing, or at least it tells a story. I'm not sure if this rock tells a story.
Left to right.
Top row: Petrified wood bark, next 4 are petrified wood
Middle: Cool rocks!!! Big black one might be petrified wood
Bottom: Native pottery, Next 3 native or settler pottery
All rocks were legally scrounged on private property and returned.
The pottery has meaning and tells a story, too, but it was a little more complicated and disappeared from my memory seconds after hearing about it, then reading about it.
I once met an Acoma Indian who told me she painted her really small lines on her pottery with an eyelash!
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