Cactus Cove Pictograph Site (23WN1156)
DStretch image using the YRE enhancement of the whole panel showing the drying rack, circle, lower band of pictographs.
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Professor Michael Fuller points to the most vivid red pictograph at the site; photograph from 2012.
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Upper pictograph panel of 3 animal skins over a rack. Photograph by Mike Chervinko.
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XRF 91 and 93 = Top row of vivid skinning rack
, Silicon = 93.143% +/- 6.312, Aluminum = 5.46%3 +/- 1.138, and Iron = 1.246% +/- 0.295. PPM analysis: Antimony = 92.59 +/- 10.48, Tin = 50.2 +/- 9.42, Cadmium = 35.2 +/- 7.16, Palladium = 6.27+/- 3.7, Silver = 125.64 +/- 11.18, Zirconium = 69.27 +/- 6.52, Iron = 989.23 +/- 47.19, Barium = 509.32 +/- 38.14, and Strontinum = 17.59 +/- 2.31.
XRF 92 and 94 = Lower row of faint skinning rack
, Silicon = 95.989% +/- 6.734, Aluminm = 3.578% +/- 1.192, and Iron = 0.361% +/- 0.152. PPM analysis = Antimony = 76.84 +/- 10.09, Tin = 77.19 +/- 9.36, Cadmium = 25.34 +/- 6.88, Silver = 103.58 +/- 10.77, Zirconium = 58.71 +/- 6.24, Zinc = 9.5 +/- 4.75, Iron = 451.46 +/- 34.34, Barium = 548.59 +/- 37.4, Strontium = 11.54 +/- 2.1, and Rubidium = 2.93 +/- 1.43.
XRF xx = Clean Wall
, Silicon = 95.533% +/- 3.501, Aluminum = 3.737%. +/- 0.733, and Iron = 0.704 +/- 0.202v
Prof. Fuller taking pXRF readings for elemental analysis on red pigment pictographs at the Cactus Cove Site.
Photograph by Richard Orr.
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The Cactus Cove pictograph site has been known to a handful of farmers in Warren County for at least 100 years. The site is situated on private property and is not open to the public.