The Puebloan Faces Panels

Two faces from the Five Faces panel.

In the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park are a number of rock art sites featuring paintings of life-sized anthropomorphic figures. These Faces panels are unique to the region and are similar enough in style to each other that there is a designated Faces Motif Anthropomorphic Style. It is possible the Puebloans were influenced by the neighboring Fremont culture to the north as Fremont figurines have been found that these images resemble.

The Four Faces panel. These images, which are directly over a small ruin, were painted over older artwork.

The Thirteen Faces panel, which sits under a small overhang in a creek bed. Only ten faces are left since a flood washed away three of the faces.