Photo 6: This picture includes a petroglyph of a small pecked hand. This design is considered representational.

Photo 7: This boulder is covered with small pits. This pitted style is made by repeatedly pecking the same location on the rock.

Photo 8: This basalt face shows spalling, thin pieces of basalt have naturally broken off.

Photo 9: The human figure on this petroglyph face would be called a stick figure. The human figure is practically unadorned.

Photo 10: This petroglyph is an anthropomorphic figure with a horn or other type of projection coming out of its head. Human figures with "horns" are common in areas of the Columbia Plateau.

From Myrtle Shock's Rock art and settlement in the Owyhee uplands of southeastern Oregon
Bachelor of Philosophy in Anthropology thesis, University of Pittsburgh, University Honors College, 2002.
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Last updated Wednesday January 14, 2004.