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<br />page 1 of 4 <br />5RT118 <br />DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES (Figures numbered 1 through 4, right to left): <br />Please r_fer to illustration and photos. <br />When referring to parts of anthropomorphic figures, anatomical right and left are <br />used, not right and left as one would look at the panel. <br />FIGURE 1: <br />Type of Figure: Anthropomorph <br />Condition: Only the center and right side of the head remain. The rest <br />has been lost by removal (either natural or vandalized) of a large slab(s) of the <br />sandstone cliff face. The eyes appear to have been recently modified by a <br />circular grinding or boring motion with a blunt instrument, possibly the end of <br />a stick. <br />Medium: Painted. Figure appears to have been produced by rubbing a <br />mineral pigment onto the unaltered surface of the rock. Pigment may have been <br />hematite. No direction of rubbing is apparent. The right side of the head is <br />one of the darkest remaining painted areas, keying to a reddish brown, dark <br />reddish brown or dark red (2.5YR j/4, 4/4 and 3/6). The remainder of the Figure <br />is somewhat lighter to quite faint, but is readily visible. <br />Features: The head is large and broad, and slightly flattened. No <br />evidence of a neck was noted, but this may be missing. Of the four figures, this <br />is the largest head. <br />Figure has two eyes and a "mouth". The eyes, as noted above, appear to <br />have been recently damaged. The "mouth" consists of a wide, grooved horizontal <br />line, slightly frowning, with six "teeth" each on the upper and lower "lip". The <br />"teeth" were produced by short, narrow, shallow grooves. <br />Impacts/vandalism: The apparent modification to the eyes is the only <br />impact noted to the figure as it exists today. However, at some point, the <br />missing portion of the Figure has been removed, either by vandals who removed a <br />large slab(s) from the cliff face, or by natural exfoliation of the cliff Face. <br />Because there are no pieces of sandstone in the immediate vicinity of the panel <br />that fit to this area or appear to have come from here, it seems likely that the <br />pieces were removed from the site, or have been completely buried. <br />Comments: None <br />FIGURE 2: <br />Type oP Figure: Anthropomorph <br />Condition: Figure 2 is nearly complete, missing only the lowest parts of <br />the body. The Figure is clearly discernable; vandalism has been minimal. <br />Medium: Painted. Figure appears to have been produced by rubbing a <br />mineral pigment onto the unaltered surface of the rock. Pigment may have been <br />hematite. No direction of rubbing is apparent. The upper left torso and left <br />part of the head are the darkest, keying to a reddish brown, dark reddish brown <br />or dark red (2.5YR 3/4, 4/4 and 3/6). The remainder of the Figure is somewhat <br />lighter to quite faint, keying to reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4, 4/4). The lower part <br />of the figure is progressively more faint, but is visible down to its lowest <br />extent where the figure becomes difficult to discern. <br />The "mouth" has been abraded and does not preserve any evidence of pigment, <br />The left edge of the body, from the armpit to the hip, has a very faint, <br />shallow, end somewhat discontinuous groove essentially marking the border of the <br />figure. This groove appears to be at least a prehistoric addition, iF not part <br />of the original figure. A similar grooved border is found on the right edge of <br />