I’m hoping for any information about this piece, I’ve never seen one quite like it. I know that it was found near the Colorado/Utah border by my great grandfather when her was young. It measures 18inX 7inX 4in and is made of sandstone with I think 8 different figures painted on it. The outer ones are hardly visible and hard to make out. Any ideas on how old? Or pictures of similar things? Thanks for looking!!
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Blown up, the figures look a little like “ant people”. Ant people figure prominently in Hopi mythology. I imagine also in Puebloan mythology in general.
https://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-L...orld-Hopi.html
Pictographs preserve well in the desert Southwest, as anyone traveling the region and visiting ancient sites knows. Given what I’m looking at, no reason to not think the images are old. My interpretation may be way off, of course. Those look like humanoid figures with antennae though.
Zuni men dressed as ant people:
Modern Hopi pottery depicting ant people….
https://www.kachinahouse.com/native-...-seed-pot-4559Last edited by CMD; 10-28-2021, 11:37 AM.Rhode Island
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Cool looking piece. If it's been in your family for a while, I'd assume it's pretty old because it doesn't look like the normal touristy stuff made before 1980 or so. There is a lot modern made decorative pieces with rock art on nice thin slabs of material, but it's the stuff you find in home decoration stores and galleries.
I can't recall seeing many black rock paintings. A lot of the rock art out that way is negative, they pecked the figurines into the host rock uncovering a lighter colored rock under the desert varnish, or they are reddish/brownish ochre pigments.Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida
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