Grand Gulch, hiking to Big Man Panel
It was nearly 2 miles from our base camp at Polly's Island to Big Man Panel. Along the way are a handful of graineries, some with nearby rock art. We also saw metates, manos, and possibly some holes for a loom.
Big Man Panel
Big Man Panel features larger-than-life size pictoglyphs of a man and a woman, as well as some smaller rock art. The figures are unusual in that they utilize a combination of techniques -- pictograph (pigment) and petroglyph (pecked into the rock). We think the red pigment may have been applied with a hand -- as fingerstrokes seem visible. The eyes are pecked in the rock. We read there was little archeological evidence here except the rock art, however, we saw a pottery shard and a groove (unknown whether a mano or a sharpening groove).
