There are others in the museum and a lot, I suppose, in private collections-the tribes asked people to go in and take what they could as long as they would care for them. These were displayed at the dam for decades before they were brought here. When it became clear that the dam was going in, an effort was made to save as many as possible. I don't know, but there were a lot of them. Some people said that there were more petroglyphs on the canyon walls than any other location in the world. Some of the change was good, some of it not so good. "And it doesn't much matter whether it is change for good or ill." The young man looked at him. Some of the old ones still mourn the old river as if she were a living being who died." "Change is hard," said Adam. We have photos." The young man stared out at the river. "Before the Columbia was dammed in 1959, the river was narrow and deep here, not the wide and tamed thing she is now. Calvin didn't quite hide his grin when I told him so. The first petroglyph I saw at Horsethief Lake looked like a pineapple. Unlike the ones in the museum, these were fenced off-look but don't touch. Like the displays in the museum, the petroglyphs at Horsethief Lake were on big chunks of rock that had clearly been cut from larger rocks. A lot more effort goes into them, and they take a lot longer to create. Gang graffiti are pictograms, but usually the term refers to paints done by ancient man. PICTOGRAMS ARE PAINT ON SOME SURFACE, ANY surface.
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