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Submitted by jeffrep on Tuesday, 13 November 2012  Page Views: 7158

Rock ArtSite Name: Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs Alternative Name: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii
Country: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kayenta, Arizona  Nearest Village: Mexican Hat, Utah
Latitude: 37.004000N  Longitude: 110.173W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs
Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs submitted by jeffrep : Handprint pictograph at Ear of the Wind Arch, Monument Valley. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Navajo County, Arizona and San Juan County, Utah.
Some handprints were made by first drawing the outline. Some were then filled in with paint. A few examples do not have an outline, and these may be the actual prints of paint-covered hands pressed onto the rock surface.

The handprints at Ear of the Wind Arch appear to be pictographs. Other handprint images are petroglyphs (made by pecking rather than painting). Some archeologists, working with ethnographic evidence from different parts of the world, believe that rock art handprints represent the passage of the human soul from the Middle World into the spiritual realm through the rock face boundary separating the two realms.

The Ear of the Wind area is only accessible with a Navajo Guide. Many guided tour companies are available.
For general location of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, see this linked site listing.
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Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs
Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs submitted by jeffrep : Ear of the Wind Arch, Monument Valley. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs by jeffrep on Monday, 26 November 2012
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Latitude: 37.004000N Longitude: 110.1731W

Note: the location given is for the entrance to the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park and does not mark the specific locations of archaeological sites within the park. The site is in a restricted area of Monument Valley and is only accessible with a Navajo guide.
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Tours of Archaeological Sites by bat400 on Tuesday, 13 November 2012
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jeffrep writes:

We were on a specific tour with an outfit named Navajo Spirit Tours

The specific tour we were on was called the Monument Valley Tour, which covered part of the public accessible 17-mile scenic drive but then verged off of it to areas where only the guides can go.
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