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According to @ellenmacarthurfoundation By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Disturbing fact, we know. Before the pandemic it is estimated that 600 billion coffee cups are thrown away every year and about 120 billion come from Americans alone, says @foodprintorg. With their plastic lids, straws, and paper or plastic cups the “to-go” coffee culture is a big part of this problem. We are rethinking disposables. By emphasizing reusable drinkware we can make a dent in our consumption. Otherwise we aren’t leaving only footprints.
CRFS Panel, UT. A mix of petroglyphs, pictographs, historical graffiti, and not-so-historical graffiti. You can basically trace the timeline from the pictographs to the petroglyphs to the graffiti and really get a feel for how long this site has seen human activity over thousands of years. This was a sun-blasted day, so it’s not easy to see all the details and layers in this panel, but there are quite a few faded anthropomorph pictographs around the concentric circle design. And of course, bullet holes.
Hero Twins Petroglyphs, San Juan County, NM. Possible representations of the Navajo Hero Twins, Tóbájíshchíní (Born of Water), and Naayéé’ neizghání (Monster Slayer) often depicted with an ornate headdress. There are varying origins of these Spirit People, but a general belief is that they were born from White-Shell Woman, the daughter of the Earth and Sky, and they defeated monsters that threatened their people. I want to be careful sharing information like this because I am not Native American, and I am passing along what I have read from Navajo sources. If you wish to learn more about the Navajo Creation Beliefs, please do your own research and know that many of these stories are not known to the non-native world. We are lucky to learn what little bits the Navajo choose to share with us.
FISP Petroglyphs 4, Sevier County, UT. What do you see? These petroglyphs weren’t pecked out on the usual sandstone surface, making them much more difficult to make out. It must have been quite the chore to hollow out the bodies on some of these. I’ve traced out some of the images I think I recognize in Slide 2, but it’s very hard to tell what most of these images are meant to be.
MS Pictographs 1, Emery County, UT. Some interesting but faded pictographs that look to be mostly Barrier Canyon Style. Slide 1 shows the rainbow-type motif that can be found at numerous sites in the area, often with figures below the arching lines. What’s especially interesting about this particular panel is the arch-shape has smaller arches with figures beneath it. I’m guessing the right side of the image had the same repeating design, but is now almost completely faded. Slide 2 has some typical Barrier Canyon hollow-eyed anthropomorphs (The “crown” above one of the figures is made of fingerprints). Slide 3 is greatly faded but shows a white pigment that has withstood the test of time better than the iron oxide color, though this white may have been a later addition. Notice the large horned head in the bottom right. These pictographs don’t have as much of an overhang above them as many other sites, so their exposure to the elements has really worn them down. I can only imagine how fantastic these must have looked when they were originally created thousands of years ago.
PS Panel, Emery County, UT. I like to call this one “Pet Sheep Panel” because of the waving anthropomorph with what looks like a sheep on a leash. I understand this is an incorrect interpretation. No need to explain to me that I’m wrong in the comments.
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