Painted Rock (Tulare County, California) Explained

CA-TUL-19
Location:	Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California, United States
Nearest City:	Porterville, California
Coords:	36.0314°N -118.715°W
Governing Body:	Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation

Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California.^[1] Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882^[2] and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903.^[3] One image on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists as "an entire Bigfoot family".^[4]

Sources

• Mayak Datat: The Hairy Man Pictographs . Strain . Kathy Moskowitz . The Relict Hominoid Inquiry . 1 . 1–12 . 2012 . July 1, 2020 . 2165-770X . Idaho State University.

External links

• Book: Latta, Frank F. . California Indian Folklore, as Told to F.F. Latta by Wah-nom-kot, Wah-hum-chah, Lee-mee (and others) . Shafter . Shafter Press . 1936 . 2011 . 9781258114626 .
• Book: Latta, Frank F. . Handbook of Yokuts Indians . 1977 . 2nd . Bear State Books . Santa Cruz, Cal. .

Notes and References

1. Strain 2012 p. 1
2. Book: Tenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888–'89 . J. W. . Powell . 1893 . G.P.O. . Washington, DC . 52–57, 637–639 .
3. Book: Merriam, C. Hart . Robert F. . Heizer . Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes: Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes . Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey . 68, part III . University of California, Berkeley . December 1967 . 412–413 .
4. Strain 2012 p. 2