A petroglyph is as suitable for “picture” writing as a painting (indeed most hieroglyphics are sculptured not drawn or painted).
On the other hand a petroglyph is no more an “object” than a painting or drawing is.
Illustration: Petroglyph figure] A Trip Through The Park Colorado River Canyon The southeastern boundary of the park for about 11 miles is the Colorado River, from the bridge on which U.
Illustration: Petroglyph figure] Graduation to a Park Arches graduated to a full-fledged national park when President Richard M.
Illustration: Petroglyph figure] Geographic Setting Geologists have divided the United States into many provinces, each of which has distinctive geologic and topographic characteristics that set it apart from the others.
Illustration: Petroglyph figure] Early History Prehistoric People The Canyon lands in and south of Arches were inhabited by cliff dwellers centuries before the first visits of the Spaniards and fur trappers.
I am informed by Mr. Owen that there is a petroglyph on the north side of the Columbia River below Kennewick and that it has been destroyed by recent railroad construction; by Mr. W.
The large figure on the right reminds us of the human form of the petroglyph at Nanaimo.
The small circles some with lines radiating from them, remind us of similar marks on the same large petroglyph at Nanaimo and even more so of the petroglyphs beyond Nanaimo at Yellow Island near Comox.
Plate XIII, somewhat similar figures on the large petroglyph at Nanaimo[374] and perhaps even more than of the Nanaimo figures, those in the petroglyphs beyond Nanaimo at Yellow Island, near Comox.
