Not much left of this site. It has been irrigated with water at the back of an apple orchard since at least 1977 when McClure was there. The western exposure of this panel coupled with the irrigation has pretty much ruined it...
I cannot understand why anyone would do this. It is insane! All of the drawings are included at this site so you can see what was lost.
There were some very unique images here. Perhaps there is some way to
remove the paint, without harming the pictographs.
Site 3 was not destroyed by vandals. It was ruined by agriculture!
The site was utilized as the south end of a cattle pen in 1945 when
Cain was there. Later an apple orchard was planted right up next to
the panel. The sprinklers washed off the images over time on this
north facing habitation area. There are not many pictographs worth
showing here, but there are some interesting features worth looking at.
Incredibly in the summer of 2000, the P.U.D. put a new power pole right next to Cain's site 4. They had to blast the bedrock to do it! It is my understanding that they never even tried to protect the panel.
There is alot of chipping and flaking of the images. Although this occurs naturally on many sites, I wonder if it wasn't damaged further. Regardless, the Tribal Archeologist made them move the pole!
This panel has the most delicate pictographs I've ever seen. They are beautiful, but very weathered.
This great site is along an ancient travel route. Was excited to find that the works here have been added to since 1945.
Cain's recordings e and k has fresh works since his drawings were done.
This awesome shelter site faces due south. An aspen grove protects it from the Sun during the seasonal months. The landowner told me that Dr. Webster from Omak had done some digging there years ago. Cain missed three images alittle further west.
This site contains some awesome work. It is a very popular site in our area. Many local folks know about this one. A friend that told me about it used to go fishing there as a kid with his Dad. I borrowed the above image from Terry Voss's Spokane Outdoors Site. His pictures turned out better than mine. There is a link to his site at the bottom of my main page. Thanks Terry!
The most interesting thing about this site is the rock suface it is painted on. Have never seen anything like it. I believe it is a pinkish quartz material on this granite boulder. Ever inch of it has a pictograph painted there.
This is the only site in Okanogan County that is available for viewing by the public. These pictographs were taken from a shelter site above the Dam. If you continue south, and stay west of the Columbia river. Head through Chelan to the Rocky Reach dam. It has an excellent indoor display of pictographs and native artifacts.
Including a dugout canoe. The old riverboat pictures are awesome as well.
