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Plate 13 from the Castle Garden collection

A complex panel of shields and symbolic designs. The left hand shield is eroded and of an unknown meaning. The central shield has a design resembling a bird. The last shield shows a medicine man wearing…

Plate 12 from the Castle Garden collection

An Anthropomorphic Chromopetroglyph of a warrior on a shield. He is depicted holding two feathered spears. The sandstone is badly cracked, but the surface was smooth before the Indian artists engraved…

Plate 11 from the Castle Garden collection

A complex panel of shields and possibly drums. The shield to the extreme left is a chromopetroglyph. Four heads complete the design and a green band was painted across each face. Below it is the figure of…

Plate 10 from the Castle Garden collection A Zoomorphic petroglyph of a shield with small turtles (similar to the Great Turtle) in each quarter. The marks left by the rubbing of a pine tree branch me be clearly seen in the upper right hand corner.…

Plate 9 from the Castle Garden collection

View of the hole left after vandals had removed the Great Turtle in a solid block.
Below may be seen a shield with symbolic figures.

The frontispiece of the Castle Garden paper, a render of the Great Turtle, which had been removed by the time of Ted C. Sowers' survey.

Plate 8 from the Castle Garden collection

This is a copy of an original photograph taken by Mr. Love and loaned to the Survey. This was taken before the removal of the Great Turtle. Compare this with the Frontispiece.

Plate 7 from the Castle Garden collection

Looking west, about two hundred yards east of road through gardens.

Plate 6 from the Castle Garden collection

View looking west and a little north, about center of gardens.

Plate 5 from the Castle Garden collection

Looking northeast showing north side and center of garden