Great Gallery Vignette
by Kathleen Bishop
Title
Great Gallery Vignette
Artist
Kathleen Bishop
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Fine art photograph of Barrier Canyon style pecked and painted pictographs created by ancient Native Americans during the Archaic Period in the Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah. These eerie shamanistic anthropomorphs, and associated zoomorphic paintings, are a vignette of a much larger panoramic panel of pre-Columbian rock art stretching nearly 330 feet across a south-facing canyon wall in Canyonlands National Park.
There is much debate among academics about the age of these paintings and of the cultural traditions of the nomadic Indians who created the art, as well as their relationship to other Native American groups in the region. Pigments can be carbon dated but it’s difficult to get reliable dates from these paintings through radiocarbon analysis due to contamination of the pigments and natural weathering.
Other dating methods employed suggest Archaic Period dates. Clay figurines, resembling Barrier Canyon Style anthropomorphic art, discovered in excavations within the Horseshoe Canyon system, have been dated from 6630 b.c.e. to about 4600 b.c.e, and associated habitation and ritualistic sites of the Archaic period date back 8,000 years.
Superimposition of Fremont and Basketmaker Anasazi rock art over Barrier Canyon style pictographs indicates that Barrier Canyon paintings were produced earlier. Researchers have concluded that Barrier Canyon paintings in the Great Gallery were created by different artists over a span of more than 4,000 years. Several hundred generations of artists followed the same stylistic tradition. That, in itself, is mind-blowing!
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December 14th, 2019
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