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Although not the largest glyphs, these tracks up a rock wall are some of the most magical in the region - southwest of Cooke’s Peak.

speciation determinations become more problematic. The best that I can do is note that in broad terms there are at least two types of fish depicted. One is flat bottomed, like the one shown above from the Jornada del Muerto area, east and south of the Caballo Mountains to our east. The other is more rounded on the bottom and is found in the southwestern part of the Black Range.
Pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, on a bowl in the Luna Mimbres Museum in Deming, New Mexico, and on the Nutt Grasslands at the SE edge of the Black Range.
Despite the fact that there are only four toes, this is certainly a bear print, southwest of Cooke’s Peak.
Footprints are often depicted in rock art and their presence is often attributed to specific purposes/roles. Human footprints are often said to be associated with the journeys of the various peoples described in the creation stories of many of the southwestern people.
Sometimes graphics are said to represent species which are not found in the Mimbres region. This is especially true of various fish images, a number of which have been identified to species by others. When depicted in rock art, fish
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