Anzo -Borrrego Desert Blair Valley Pictographs in red

Here is the meetup group at the entrance to the trial and the next shot is the scenery. The Native Americans in this area were called the Kumeyaay. It is believed this site was a puberty ritual one for girls due to the red paint. The red was a female color as black was for males. This site is between 200-1,000 years old. Females during puberty go through a series of steps to become women. One is believed to involve ingesting native tobacco, or jimsonweed, and with the aid of a Shaman and spirit guides painting the rock. Of course, this is all theory. A little girl at the site though the drawings were done by children because "drawing is fun"- I like the simplicity of this.

The Diamond entopic zig zag motif to the right of my head is though to represent a rattle snake, an important spirit helper in Native American culture. the rock on the left on the ground has a mortar in it, a pleasant surprise, but it makes sense, perhaps it was used to grind pigment.

I use the Pantone system to see how accuate my pictures develop and for my art linocuts.

I love this little sun! How cool is that?

There is a faint yellow outline on some of the pictoglyphs, I wonder what it originally might have looked like.