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Site Gallery

The photo gallery is designed to showcase Sacred Sites Research (SSR) projects and the individuals who have been part of those projects. The primary goal of SSR is to document, evaluate, and analyze North American rock art sites. We complete funded projects for federal and state agencies and non-funded projects, often at sites on private land. Examples of both kinds of projects are shown in the photo gallery.

Musselshell
Sara Scott and Linda Olson tracing Panel 23 at the Musselshell site, north central Montana. The tracing was used with a field sketch and photographs to create an accurate representation of the figures on the panel

Tracing Panel 23
Greg White working with a Gigipan camera at the Musselshell site, Montana. The camera is set to take multiple photographs that are combined into an overall view

Gigipan Camera
Bonita Newman measuring a petroglyph panel at the Musselshell site, Montana

Measuring a Petroglyph Panel
Finished drawing of Panel 23 at the Musselshell site, Montana. The final version was made from photographs, the panel tracing, and the panel drawing.

Finished Drawing of Panel 23
Completed drawing for Panel 26 at the Musselshell site, Montana

Completed drawing for Panel 26
Lookout Cave
The outer chamber of Lookout Cave, Montana with Larry Loendorf taking notes and Laurie white recording a panel

Outer Chamber
Drawing of Panel 10 at Lookout Cave. Several figures on the panel were only found through DStretch

Drawing of Panel 10
Castle Gardens
The Castle Gardens site in central Wyoming. The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and open to the public

Open to the Public
Laurie White is measuring a panel of Castle Gardens petroglyphs

Measuring a Panel of Petroglyphs
Tracing of Castle Gardens shield figures. The figures are made by smoothing the sandstone surface, then incising the design before adding paint in three to four colors

Tracing Shield Figures
The shield figure known as zigzag man. In tests with a portable x-ray fluorescence instrument we learned the green pigment was from a mineral known as fucshite

Zigzag Man
Canyon de Chelly
Greg White measuring a handprint in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. We were attempting to use hand measurements to differentiate male from female hands.

Measuring Handprint
An example of protected anthropomorphs and handprints

Wallpaper Cave
An anthropomorph and well-preserved handprints

Anthropomorph and handprint

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