Tag Archives: History

Petroglyph, Santa Ynez Mountains

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Jack Elliott

“The symbols of shamans were potentially dangerous because of their material spirituality connecting them to the sacred…The vulva itself was considered unusually perilous. For example, a Northern Paiute account indicates that the worst from of sorcery a man could endure … Continue reading →

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Condor Cave Reference On Redwood Log, Disney California Adventure Park

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Jack Elliott

Chumash pictograph, Santa Barbara County “Native people drew spiral pictographs—sets of concentric rings radiating out from a center—on cave walls and rock shelters in locations where they are illuminated by the rising sun on the winter solstice. Solstice ceremonies, such … Continue reading →

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Long Lost Trail Discovered, Hiking In A Time Of Lockdown And Distancing

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Jack Elliott

Jack-in-a-crack doing what he does. Wandering. Searching. Hunting. Looking. Seeing. Sometimes discovering. Looking to get my hike on, and so surveying various trailheads through my car window during the COVID-19 governor’s lockdown order, I saw more cars parked than expected, … Continue reading →

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Farewell To The Rock, Gibraltar Party Place

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Jack Elliott

El Roca Grande circa 1909 overlooking the Santa Barbara littoral, Pacific Ocean and Santa Cruz Island in the distance. Note the metal poles and cable handrail. “In the 1970s this was The Place. Well, if you were a teenager on … Continue reading →

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Native American Cupule Boulder Discovered

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Jack Elliott

Mortar No trail leads there. A careless body could fall along the way and be bloodied up, break a bone, die busted and splattered across the sharp angular stones of canyon rip-rap and jumbled boulders and bedrock slabs. Such has … Continue reading →