07 May Saving What You Cannot See
I'd seen pictographs before. West of Vega at what we call "Paint Rock," what archaeologists call "Rocky Dell." It's an important pictograph site (pictographs are painted on rocks rather than incised like petroglyphs). In fact that site is the only Panhandle painted rock site cited in Kirkland's The Rock Art of Texas Indians (l967), based on field research done in the l930s. Turns out Kirkland, an artist himself and amateur researcher, made watercolor renderings of other major cites in Texas, the most stunning and prolific in the Lower Pecos...