Fremont Indian State Park | Set 3
February 11 & 12, 2011
Some more photos from Fremont Indian State Park in no particular order. Make sure to check out Set 1 and Set 2.
This petroglyph panel along the Rim Trail near Newspaper Rock contains a few square spirals. There’s even a small anthropomorph in the upper right hand corner that is separated from the rest of the panel.
These two faint figures can be found along the Parade of Rock Art trail near the museum.
Inside of a replica pithouse that was copied from varying features of the ones found on Five Finger Ridge.
The ‘Arch of Art’ contains many petroglyph and pictograph panels that can be spotted from the main viewpoint. The tricky part is actually locating them all. This is one of them. Notice the faint pictographs on the right side.
Here’s another panel found on the ‘Arch of Art’. It’s not really an arch, but the formation that houses these panels is arched.
This blanket pictograph might look small, but it’s actually about 16 feet long and 4 feet tall. The pain was dated as being about 250 years old. There is a legend about this blanket pictograph: Many years ago a group of Indians passed through Clear Creek Canyon on the way to their winter camping area. While in the canyon the new baby of a young Indian girl died and was buried near the site of the blanket pictograph. During the winter the mother could not get the thought of her baby being alone in the winter cold out of her mind. The next spring she made preparations and returned to paint the blanket for her lost baby to use in the future cold winters. (The source of this legend is residents of the local towns near the park, not the Paiutes)
Just another photo of the largest anthropomorph in the park, and one of my favorite petroglyphs I came across while exploring the park.
I’m all for protecting rock art, but this is a bit extreme for me…
Still more photos from Fremont Indian State Park to come…