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Rock ArtSite Name: Monument Valley - Ear of the Wind Handprint Pictographs Alternative Name: Tsé Biiʼ NdzisgaiiCountry: United States Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kayenta, Arizona Nearest Village: Mexican Hat, Utah
Latitude: 37.004000N Longitude: 110.173W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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jeffrep visited on 30th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4
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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