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Plate 9. Site 5MF948, Panel 3, detail view showing an upside-down horse and <br />rider superimposed over a yellowish -brown shield figure pictograph. <br />The horsemen are also similar to numerous examples in both rock art and ledger <br />paintings from the Biographic Tradition rock art of the Plains (ibid.) as well as <br />petroglyphsand pictographs more affirmatively assigned to Ute occupations (ibid., Keyser et <br />al. 2008, and McKern 1978), with the exception that the horseman furthest to the right <br />appears to be wearing a buffalo -horn headdress and carrying a recurved bow. It is impossible <br />to ascertain either the head gear or what is being carried by the horseman at the upper left, <br />however a line extending from the rider to the area below the head of his mount with a <br />triangular point appears to be a lance (again, very similar to many of the figures illustrated in <br />Keyser and Klassen 2001). The horse and rider to the lower left of the Barrier Canyon style <br />anthropomorphs (Plate 9), is depicted upside down—likely indicating death—and is <br />superimposed atop a yellowish -brown shield figure pictograph (it should be noted that this <br />element is printed upside down in the 1980 site report). <br />Again, numerous examples of shield figures, including representations similar to this <br />element with a round circle overlain by a stick -figure anthropomorph with head and legs <br />extending beyond the perimeter of the shield, are known from Fremont (Cole 1990), Ute and <br />Shoshone (ibid:217-218), and Plains (Keyser and Klassen 2001) rock art panels. A faint, <br />crudely executed, possibly anthropomorphic, element is above the horse and rider furthest to <br />the right, which has a bullet hole near the apparent head area (Plate 10). <br />