Painted Rock (Tulare County, California)

CA-TUL-19
Hoffman's 1882 sketch of the rock art seen at the site.
Location	Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California, United States
Nearest city	Porterville, California
Coordinates	36°1′53″N118°42′54″W / 36.03139°N 118.71500°W / 36.03139; -118.71500
Governing body	Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation

Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California. ^{[1] [2]} Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882 ^[3] and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903. ^[4] One image on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists as "an entire Bigfoot family". ^[5]

Sources

• Strain, Kathy Moskowitz (2012). "Mayak Datat: The Hairy Man Pictographs" (PDF). The Relict Hominoid Inquiry. 1. Idaho State University: 1–12. ISSN   2165-770X . Retrieved July 1, 2020.

References

1. "Painted Rock Campground". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Strain 2012 p. 1
3. Powell, J. W., ed. (1893). Tenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888–'89. Washington, DC: G.P.O. pp. 52–57, 637–639.
4. Merriam, C. Hart (December 1967). Heizer, Robert F. (ed.). Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes: Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes (PDF). Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey. Vol. 68, part III. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 412–413.
5. Strain 2012 p. 2

External links

• Latta, Frank F. (2011) [1936]. California Indian Folklore, as Told to F.F. Latta by Wah-nom-kot, Wah-hum-chah, Lee-mee (and others). Shafter: Shafter Press. ISBN   9781258114626.
• Latta, Frank F. (1977). Handbook of Yokuts Indians (2nd ed.). Santa Cruz, Cal.: Bear State Books.