Elephant Toes Butte
Turtle Rock
These drawings were probably made by the Fremont people about 1,000 years ago. Using sharp tools, they pecked away at the dark natural stain on the rock surface- called desert varnish- to reveal the light colored sandstone beneath. Some of the designs are easily recognizable, but their meaning is not. Was this religious art, a symbolic language, or simply something created to fill idle moments? No one can be sure.
