MS 2392 Blueprint copies of drawings of petroglyphs near Hurley, New Mexico
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2392
name: label: Creator
content: Hesse, Walter
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: New Mexico
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
label: Topic
content: Petroglyphs
creator: label: Creator
content: Hesse, Walter
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Drawings (visual works) (blueprints, in panels taped together, 60 x 65.5 inches and  53 x 64 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925 March
container: label: Container
content: Folder 2392
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2392
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: Blueprints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of two blueprint copies of drawings illustrating rock carvings and paintings at two sites near Hurley, Mexico.  The drawings give the position of the petroglyphs on the rocks as well as their color and design. The first drawing is captioned: "The stone-drawings (partly chiseled with flintstone, partly painted with red-brown paint) south of the excavation, northwest of Hurley, New Mexico." The second is captioned, "All the figures are painted on the lower side of a great rock plate, as well as on several smaller rocks, lying under the above mentioned rock-plate."

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