MS 3957 Drawing of ceiling pictographs at Painted Rock, Tulare County, California
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3957
label: Variant Title
content: The Painted Rock--View Overhead
place: label: Place
content: Tule River Indian Reservation (Calif.)
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The provenance of the collection is unknown.  There is no accession information available.
culture: label: Culture
content: Yokuts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor and ink, 8.25 x 12.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
container: label: Container
content: Box 3957 / 3984 / 3987, Folder 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3957
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Petroglyphs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Petroglyphs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a drawing of pictographs on the ceiling of the Painted Rock on the Tule River Indian Reservation, Tulare County, California.  The drawing is labelled with the four cardinal directions and: "The Painted Rock-View Overhead.  Tulare Agency, California. Reduced to 1/20 of the original."  The artist and date are unknown.

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