Those who love Gabriola petroglyphs had best head over to Northwest Coast Archaeology to read qmackie’s latest blog post: Adams on Gabriola Petroglyphs. It begins: One recent M.A. thesis I was really looking forward to reading is by Amanda Adams entitled Visions cast on stone : a stylistic analysis of the petroglyphs of Gabriola Island, [...]
Oh my, I’ve got lots more petroglyphs to show you! And other things too. No time tonight, though, but I thought I’d at least post a preview photo for you before going off to bed. I’ll try to post more petroglyph photos soon, as well as blog entries for all the things I’ve been meaning [...]
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The ever-fascinating Northwest Coast Archaeology blog has some Gabriola content today: Rock art on Gabriola in 1792. The blogger, qmackie, has found this image in the University of Washington’s digital collections. Well, Gabriola, where could this be? The image label says near Descanso Bay. I’d say Malaspina Galleries, but I don’t think there is any [...]
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Here’s another one of Gabriola’s petroglyphs. What animal do you think it represents? It looks like a cheery dog to me, and I know that the Snuneymuxw did keep dogs… so? On the other hand, it’s not like I know much about Snuneymuxw rock art, so somebody else is bound to have a better answer.
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Recently I happened across a few posts about Gabriola on the Northwest Coast Archaeology blog. In this post about Gabriola petroglyphs the writer notes: I must comment on the destructive practice of rubbing, not so much through cloth but the scraping of the lines to remove weathering patina and lichen in order to take clearer [...]
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We’ve got lots of petroglyphs on Gabriola; this is one a friend pointed out in the woods last week. I’m glad we have all those petroglyph reproductions at the Gabriola Museum, but it’s way more fun to come across a real petroglyph in the middle of the forest somewhere.
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Now here’s something you might like to attend if you’re in Nanaimo tomorrow night: Archaeological Society of British Columbia Nanaimo chapter presentation: 7 p.m. at Vancouver Island University, Building 356, Room 109. Nick Doe will make a presentation on the meaning of the petroglyphs on Gabriola Island. That’s from the Nanaimo Daily News. They didn’t [...]
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