Rochester Creek Panel

Rochester Creek Panel

The Barrier Canyon Style is known for its galleries of painted, human-like figures but this panel is pecked and crowded, full of bizarre creatures, and yet considered to be mostly Barrier Canyon in style, or at least Archaic. It is believed by some that sections of this panel represent the evening sky, with the "rainbow" being the Milky Way and other figures representing constellations.

This panel faces east. The rainbow is about four feet high.

 

Rochester Creek Rainbow

Going up from the left there is a spider, snake, two elk, an anthropomorph, a footprint, and, at the top, some odd creatures.

 

Close-up of some of the odd creatures.

 

Section of Rochester Creek Panel

Someone tried to remove the figure on the right and probably broke it in half, apparently rendering it useless for their purpose. Based on the large amount of lighter rock in this section it is likely that a number of figures were removed from this panel.

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