Unsolved:Painted Rock (Tulare County, California)
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 Hoffman's 1882 sketch of the rock art seen at the site. | |
| Location | Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California, United States |
| Nearest city | Porterville, California |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 36°1′53″N 118°42′54″W / 36.03139°N 118.715°W |
| Governing body | Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation |
Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California.[1][2] Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882[3] and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903.[4] One image, of several humanoids, has been interpreted as "an entire Bigfoot family".[5]
Sources
- Strain, Kathy Moskowitz (2012). "Mayak Datat: The Hairy Man Pictographs". The Relict Hominoid Inquiry (Idaho State University) 1: 1–12. ISSN 2165-770X. https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/Mayak-Datat-Hairy-Man-Pictographs-1.pdf. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
References
- ↑ "Painted Rock Campground". United States Geological Survey. https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1667605.
- ↑ Strain 2012 p. 1
- ↑ Powell, J. W., ed (1893). Tenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888–'89. Washington, DC: G.P.O.. pp. 52–57, 637–639. https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbu1018881889smit.
- ↑ Merriam, C. Hart (December 1967). Heizer, Robert F.. ed. Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes: Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey. 68, part III. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 412–413. https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucas068-003.pdf#page=163.
- ↑ Strain 2012 p. 2
External links
- Latta, Frank F. (2011). California Indian Folklore, as Told to F.F. Latta by Wah-nom-kot, Wah-hum-chah, Lee-mee (and others). Shafter: Shafter Press. ISBN 9781258114626.
- Latta, Frank F. (1977). Handbook of Yokuts Indians (2nd ed.). Santa Cruz, Cal.: Bear State Books.
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