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sddarkman619
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9/20/2016
sddarkman619
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Headed out to In Ko Pah with Roryborealis Sunday to check on some sites I monitor. More like try to find the sites. Coords were given but back in the 70's when they were first documented, they didn't have GPS. So when digitizing records guestimates were used and some of them were way off.
My main objective was to find a petroglyph called the diamond chain, 1 of 2 that I heard of in the area I am researching. Second is to try to find another site with another prayer stick. third was to find some new pictographs.

I usually bring someone with me as it seems they always find the cool stuff. As it turned out it was still true. Rory and I set off on our first quest for the Dimaond Chain petro. and looking in a site that was supposedly a village. The first time I came there to that area I saw nothing. Coords were wrong. Widened the area and came upon an area so large and so scattered with pottery and stone chippings, we were immediately overwhelmed.
after about 20 minutes of snapping photos and looking, I radioed Rory and he had found a point, as I started on over to his location he radioed me back to tell me he had found the diamond chain petroglyph. He met me part way to show me the point he found, a nice looking piece that I believe is a pacific coast side notch, sub categorized a diablo canyon style with a rounded bottom.

then he lead me to the diamond chain rockshelter and there was the petroglyph. Good thing I brought him because I would not have found it. After looking around inside the shelter and photoing a few other things we walked outside and I turned around to photo it and realized I had seen this shelter before in a report from the 1970's by Ron May. I stood there admiring this place because it's fun finding things you've read about, and been asked to go relocate.

We then went to our next location but on the way stopped at a cave I've been eyeballing for a couple trips, but Rory wanted to go check it out then. as so we did. Again I get a call from Rory that he found a prayer stick up against the wall, but that someone had been sleeping there. From the looks of it it's been a few years since it was sleep in but the stick was not disturbed.

Next we are heading to a place where there is a pictograph and as we get there Rory heads into another direction only to tell me he's found some other pictographs. So I go look and sure enough.

We then go to look for one last location but it was high up on a pile of boulders and we were both pretty tired by then so we decided another day another site.

A great day of documenting and relocating happened. And thanks to Rory, I got to see the things I started out to find.

this stuff was everywhere
t-2037 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

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an agave roasting area
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the point Rory found
t-2094 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

t-2095 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

t-2096 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

inside the shelter
t-2100 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

Diamond Chain Petroglyph
t-2103 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

t-2104 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

Diamond Chain Rockshleter
t-2109 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

the beauty of it all
t-2120 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

an incised rim sherd
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t-2126 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

pottery
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The Prayer stick
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t-2147 by sddarkman619, on Flickr

Pictograph
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t-2156_yrd by sddarkman619, on Flickr
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surfponto
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9/20/2016
surfponto
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Very nice.
Looks like a beautiful area.
The pottery pieces are amazing.

Bob

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