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Indian Pictographs

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c. 1300 and later. U.S. 83, 1 mile north and west on private road; access by appointment

About 1,500 paintings are scattered under limestone cliffs overlooking the Concho River. Natural pigments of red, black, white, yellow, and orange were used for human and animal figures, geometric shapes, and many handprints. The site, the largest in Texas and one of only a few in the central part of the state, was first documented in 1930. Interpretations of the cultural meanings of the images, produced by peoples from prehistoric times to nineteenth-century Apache and Comanche groups, vary greatly.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Concho County Courthouse
First United Methodist Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Indian Pictographs", [Paint Rock, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS33.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 418-418.

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