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 on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists as "an entire Bigfoot family".[5]
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 Hoffman's 1882 sketch of the rock art seen at the site. | |
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| 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 118.71500°W |
| Governing body | Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation |
Sources
edit- Strain, Kathy Moskowitz (2012). "Mayak Datat: The Hairy Man Pictographs" (PDF). The Relict Hominoid Inquiry. 1. Idaho State University: 1–12. ISSN 2165-770X. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
References
edit- ^ "Painted Rock Campground". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Merriam, C. Hart (December 1967). Heizer, Robert F. (ed.). Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes: Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes (PDF). Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey. Vol. 68, part III. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 412–413.
- ^ Strain 2012 p. 2
External links
edit- Latta, Frank F. (2011) [1936]. 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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