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About th ree or four thousand years ago hunters of the Desert Archaic Culture constructed and left animal effigies in red wall limestone caves of the Grand Canyon in what is now California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Some of the effigies give the appearance of bighorn sheep and some that of mule deer, both animals still very common in the Grand Canyon today. These animal effigies are usually constructed using a single willow twig or cottonwood that has been split for most of its length and then bent and twisted to form the effigy. Following a ceremony, the shapes were placed beneath a cairn in the back of a cave The greatest concentration of these rare sites has been found in the Grand Canyon where at least five figurine-bearing caves have been located.The peoples who made these little
animal effigies were part of the Desert Culture, the forebears of the
mysterious “Anasazi”
culture which occupied the Canyon after them. Modern Puebloan descendants of
the Anasazi, including the Hopi have asked that the term “Ancestral Puebloan”
be used instead of “Anasazi.” Anasazi in Navajo means "enemy ancestor" or
"ancient people who are not us." These people dominated the area for over 6,000 years living among and hunting the large animals of the time. These animals included the bison, mammoths, the stag moose, mastodons, giant beavers and huge ground sloths. So many split twig animal effigies have been found (first in 1932) that they are no longer collected by museums. Interestingly, there are usually little or no associated cultural remains at most of these sites. Some figurines contain a piece of deer or sheep scat in the body section, seemingly to increase the validity of the effigy by incorporating material from the animals or animals being represented by a willow twig or agave spine. These findings have led to a general consensus that the caves were probably shrines where hunters from the latter part of the archaic period practiced a form of hunting magic by construction and ritually “killing” representations of the deer and sheep that were an important part of their food base during that period.
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More recently the
split-twig animal effigies have become a symbol of human interest and
fascination with the Grand Canyon. These animal effigies are made by
splitting a single willow twig and bending it to form the effigy, one of the earliest religio-artistic objects found in the
Southwest.
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