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7/19/2005
11:15:49 am EDT
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Bighorn Canyon Sites At Mercy Of Unlawful Artifact Hunters
Author: Lorna Thackeray Source: The Billings Gazette (MT)
Title: BIGHORN CANYON SITES AT MERCY OF UNLAWFUL ARTIFACT HUNTERS
Sometime in the past 200 to 400 years, an artist from an exclusive Crow religious society painted two sacred figures on the walls of a protected rock shelter on the edge of the Pryor Mountains.
He had meticulously drawn a man and a woman adorned with sacred hats worn by Crow participants in Tobacco Society rituals. The artist probably created his intense red paint by combining blood and urine with ocher, a reddish clay that crops up occasionally in the ancient mountain range. Pieces of ocher that the artist would have crushed to a fine powder for mixing his paint were discarded on the floor of the shelter.
"The Tobacco Society is very, very old,'' said Howard Boggess, a Crow and a historian, as he sat on a rock in front of the 2-foot-high paintings. "It's really a strong society. You have to work for years to get into it.''
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