Saturday was a nearly perfect day for a hike. I checked out the Dragonfly and Blue-Eyed Princess pictograph panels, the former of which is one of the best I’ve ever seen! The Dragonfly panel sits on an angled wall at the back of an alcove, and to the left in a deeper part of the alcove are a few slab-lined granaries held together with mud. There is also quite a bit of lithic scatter and broken pottery of all sorts lying on the ground in and around the alcove.
Piece of pottery in the Dragonfly Panel alcove
Piece of pottery in the Dragonfly Panel alcove
Granaries in the Dragonfly Panel alcove
Granary detail showing sandstone slab and mud holding it together
Inside a granary
The details in the Dragonfly panel are tiny and several of the figures are quite different from the many I’ve seen nearby.
Dragonfly Panel overview
Lower-left portion of Dragonfly Panel
Elongated winged figure
Four figures below a rainbow
One of the tiniest figures I’ve ever seen
Dragonflies
Dragonfly
Dragonfly and another figure
Tiny rabbit or dog
Huge figure near the Dragonfly Panel
The Blue-Eyed Princess panel, which by itself is interesting and worth visiting, pales in comparison to Dragonfly. The main figure and namesake of the panel has two differently-colored eyes, but I couldn’t tell whether they were actually blue. The surfaces behind the two largest figures had been abraded smooth before painting, and there were several other such spots that had been prepared but never painted. If the artist had followed through on his or her plans to paint all of the prepared areas, this would have been one amazing panel.
Pictographs near the Blue-Eyed Princess, including two hunchback figures
A spot that was abraded and prepared for paint, but was left unpainted
Two main figures at the Blue-Eyed Princess Panel
Blue-Eyed Princess and bird figure
Blue-Eyed Princess
Bird figure
Large crowned figure and flute player
Flute player
Upside-down human figure near Blue-Eyed Princess
