Chaco Frogs
by Kathleen Bishop
Title
Chaco Frogs
Artist
Kathleen Bishop
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Are those frogs on this Basketmaker Anasazi petroglyph panel in Chaco Canyon? There are “experts” who believe so. Do frogs’ heads look like toes? Generally, they do not, but I prefer to believe they are frogs. Or maybe they are spadefoot toads? When conditions are right, they emerge from the mud by the hundreds to rock and roll all night long. Ancestral Puebloan people couldn’t have missed a mating serenade loud enough to rattle the canyon walls. Perhaps they were memorialized for their stamina on those special nights?
And what about these bird tracks? Are they crane? Sandhill cranes still come to Chaco and leave nearly identical tracks in the mud at the bottom of the wash. Maybe thousands of years from now those tracks will leave fossil imprints like the dinosaur tracks that can be found all over this part of the country. That would be pretty cool.
So what’s that object with all the tiny dots framed by two vertical lines? Is it a medicine bag, or? And might that be a prairie rattler winding above it or is that a natural feature of this richly-textured sandstone substrate?
Do you see the three figures holding hands above the “frog”? Their hairdos look amazingly similar to the traditional squash blossom, or butterfly, whorls worn by Hopi women during the old times. Hmmm…
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October 18th, 2018
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