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Plate 10. Site 5MF948, Panel 3, detail view showing a <br />faint, crudely -executed, possible anthropomorph. <br />To the upper left of this shield figure is a second similar element executed in the same <br />brownish pigment, but less distinct and smaller. Two "smudges" of red pigment exist near <br />this second shield figure. To the left of these elements, at the far left end of Panel 3, is a <br />bison pictograph that has been impacted by two bullet holes (Plate 11). The body of the <br />quadruped, but not the head, is outlined in red pigment, including the four legs. The interior <br />of the bison has been scratched or abraded with a sharp object, and apparently the same tool <br />was used to scratch a crude bow and arrow above and to the right of the animal. These <br />abrasions are likely of recent origin, however, the pigment outline is in all likelihood <br />contemporary with the other pictographs. Below the bison, to the right, is a red pictographic <br />element, possibly a quadruped, that has also been partially obliterated by two bullet holes. <br />To the lower right of the battle/massacre scene is the largest element of the panel, <br />which appears to be, again, of a style comparable to art from the Archaic hunter and gatherer <br />era throughout the west including the "wide body" anthropomorphs from the Plains <br />Dinwoody Tradition dating from before the time of Christ to the Late Prehistoric (ibid); <br />notably earlier than that depicting horses and bows -and -arrows (Cole 1990). What appears to <br />be an anthropomorphic figure (Plate 12), with a headdress, stubby arms, and no legs or feet, <br />has been executed in red pigment overlain with horizontal pecked lines and numerous <br />25 <br />