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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]

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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.


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