Arches National Monument scrapbook

Petroglyphs

A description of the petroglyphs.

the advent of the white man some time after 1540 But the group could easily be up to three hundred or more years old Note the noble charger the right hand man is riding-that arch of the neck-but grass belly if detraction is allomed Xote too the coyote or dog figures one going with the motion of the group the other headed baock towird the lone de Those petroglyphs make one know that the mofent Tndian fa hebited that part of the region in the din and distent past The water of Selt Creek is now too saline for drinking and possibly bad for his corn and squash But Freshwater so named fromspring of fresh water ls close at hend and his wants but little Seven caves are farther down the little creek in one of which was found cedar bark but no other evidence of human ocoupation irrovheads and one spearhead wis found nearby Mo pottery was recovered Digital image 2003 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved