Spanish drawing panel

[allenroyboy]

This panel is in Northern New Mexico. Someone filled it with buckshot.

 

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[allenroyboy]

I photoshopped the buckshot damage out of most of the photo. The dates across the top and to the right are a later addition. If you look close the patina of the dates is much lighter (similar to the color of the buckshot). The peace sign and a couple of the other signs on the right and bottom are also new.

But the figures in the left and center have a darker patina and appear original. (there are other similar drawings near by). It appears to be white men in hats carrying stuff around and such. Maybe a camp.

 

[Old Dog]

Great pannel,
Looks like maybe a cow camp

Note the date though...
Pretty close to Christmas

 

[allenroyboy]

To me the dates appear to be from a later time. They are lighter in color than the figures, which indicates youth. The older figures have had more time to be covered with desert varnish again. There are light colored rings around the buckshot similar in color to the numbers.

One date appears to be 12-19-1975. The other ones appear to be 9 - 1? - ?8. The area is in a oil field being drilled in the 50s to 70s. So there were people with time on their hands to be able to find the panel and deface it.

 

[Ed Weatherly]

Allen Ed Weatherly I think its great you were able to remove the bukshot from the picture.
I have been there and looked at it a few times and wondered what it would look like before it was shot.
Thanks a lot. Ed

 

[allenroyboy]

Hmmm. According to Rhoades (1982) Waybill to Lost Spanish mines..., p. 28, the figures could indeed be Indian. Some figures have hats, signifying white men (Spanish?), and those without--Indian.

I sure wonder what they are carrying

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

the threesome behind the horse are curious. one person with a hat...hands above head as if ordering the person in the headdress to attack the person with a shield...
so, this implys native allies performing in concert with the hat people?