Title |
Journey Hitherward Scrapbook |
Identifier |
journey.xml |
Subject |
Petroglyphs; Indians of North America--Folklore; Indians of North America--Utah--Antiquities; Rock art |
Description |
Scrapbook by Frank A. Beckwith that includes his interview with Joe Pikyavit, a Ute Indian, on the understanding of the meaning of different petroglyphs found in Utah; the petroglyphs may tell the story of a journey by ancient Indians |
Personal Names |
Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951 |
Spatial Coverage |
Delta (Utah) |
Creator |
Beckwith, Frank Asahel, 1876-1951 |
Publisher |
Hosted by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1938 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Journey Hitherward Scrapbook |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Frank Asahel Beckwith Collection |
Rights Management |
Digital image copyright 2003, Beckwith Family. All rights reserved |
Holding Institution |
Delta City Library |
Source Material |
scrapbook |
Source Physical Dimensions |
17cm x 25cm |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6f21tvr |
Setname |
dc_bpc |
ID |
126246 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f21tvr |
Title |
Petroglyphs |
Identifier |
011jh.tif |
Subject |
Indians of North America; Rock art |
Description |
Excerpts taken from an article published by the Smithsonian in 1936. |
OCR Text |
Show WARNING The following paragraphs are taken from the port of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1936 in an icle Petroglyphs of the United States 0080000000558000085 Itunbappy 1o of sclence thatmust clea the gromnd of Aitony and fanciful structures bullt upon false premises and errors of fact Probably nothing in the catire field of archeology has proAuced ireater excesses of misinformation than the significance and uthorship of petroglyphs Unintelligible mysterious and supposed15 oceult they have stimulated veritablo orgy of mad speculation Page 107of hese interpretations are similar in that they lustrate priort deductive thinking at its worst 407 therefore snyone not excepting Tndians pretendsfnterss the direet testimony of the original ardst pretmay be assaredfs merely his own entirely unfounded guess Page 400 Anthropalogists are gencrally agreed that America was peopled fromby mongoloid bumigrants who wandered across Behring St to Alaxka before the invention of writng No alphabet was Kinownany pre Columbian Amcrican Indians Page 1080 The testimony of modern Tndians concerning petroglyphsextraondinarily disappoiating They know of them as Iandmarks and believe them have supernatural origin Neverdheless thorough knowledge of modern Tndians gives many clues petroglyphs and sometimes accurate nterpretation Page 412 Manypre-Columbian potroglyphs must have been made for detinite and important reason Pago 412 Considerable speculation about the meaning of these figures has never produced more han sheor gucsses The commonest suppoo is that the complex geometric designs Are maps such guesses are besond the posibiIly of proof pro or con Page 420 It ixmpossible Interprec as asslgn authorship these peroglyphs Page 419 Digital image 2003 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved |
Contributors |
Pickyavit, Joseph J., 1892-1974 |
Type |
Image |
Format |
application/pdf |
Format Creation |
image/tiff |
Coverage |
Utah |
Source Material |
"Journey Hitherward" Scrapbook |
Archival Resolution |
Archival TIFF: 3000 x 4600 |
Low Resolution |
JPEG: 800 x 600 |
Bit Depth |
8-bit |
Scanning Device |
Creo-Scitex Eversmart Jazz+ flatbed scanner |
Setname |
dc_bpc |
ID |
124655 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f21tvr/124655 |