12/8/18 Project 2: Draw Your Own Pictograph Exhibit

Draw Your Own Pictograph Exhibit

The Draw Your Own Pictograph Exhibit is going to be in the Cliff Dwellings Visitor Center Museum.

The exhibit invites visitors to look at pictographs that can be found in the Cliff Dwellings National Monument and then draw their own.

These pictographs can be found on the Trail to the Past. They are red because the artists who painted them used red hematite rocks for pigment. The age of pictographs are very difficult to determine.

This pictographs along with several others can be found in the cliff dwellings. No one knows whether they were painted by people who lived in the caves before the cliff dwellers came, or if the cliff dwellers painted them.

These pictographs are found on a rock outcrop next to the road to the trailhead.

Unlike the pictograph artists of the past, visitors are invited to draw their pictographs on paper using with crayons. The artists of the past made their own paint and drew the pictographs with yucca brushes.

I enjoyed taking the photographs and creating this exhibit to show visitors where they can find pictographs in the Cliff Dwellings National Monument. It also invites visitors to think about the pictograph artists who lived at least 700 years ago!