This is the pictograph I painted using stone pigments and yucca brushes on sandstone. Its a picture of my Anasazi Honor Name: Earth Sky Circle Dancer
I found a hidden talent: painting people's faces for the mask dance night.
myself, Jaime, Stephanie and Joe all painted up and ready to dance to the rythm of the drums around the bonfire
I look like I have a weird disease with all those red spots. It took me close to an hour to get this off my face.
This is the great basin atlatl I made.
Every year at this gathering, there is a distance atlatl competition and for the last two years I have won. (an atlatl is a primitive hunting tool that predates the bow and arrow and was used in both the southwest and western tribes). I was a little nervous about this year because I had built it up so big in my head (how cool would it be to win three years in a row). I used my new atlatl I had made earlier in the week; sadly I forgot my camera and wasn't able to get any pictures of me actually throwing the darts. I broke my personal record from last year by fifty feet for a new personal best of 297.7 feet. I also won the competition. My only real competitor said she has never gotten close to 250 let alone 300 ft. I was so proud of myself. My prize was a beautiful black-on-white primitive made pottery bowl.
The painting design is fashioned after the Mimbres culture which neighbored the Anasazi in New Mexico. The picture shows three men hunting with their atlatls.
