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Author
Pub. Date
1972
Description
Of the early reports of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the most significant is Col. Garrick Mallery's report on the picture-writing of the American Indians. Except for a special section on petroglyphs (rock-writing), most of the examples are roughly contemporary with the writing of the report and were gathered by ethnologists, explorers, and expeditions to reservations. As such, the emphasis is on the meaning of the...
3) Skinwalkers
Description
The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker" - is at work.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until now, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety. Why did they precede representational marks? What is known about their origins and functions? Why and how did humans begin to make marks, and what does this practice tell us about the...
11) Images in stone
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Presents Muench's beautiful photos of the petroglyphs and pictographs chipped, chiseled, and painted in prehistoric and historic times onto boulders and rock walls in the Southwest and in California, Baja California, and the Columbia River gorge. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma provides an introductory essay and commentary on the background of the people who created the rock art and the world they inhabited.