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A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America , scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images.
Artworks produced by Hawaii’s native born and long-term residents incorporating western materials and ideas include paintings on canvas and quilts. They may be distinctly Hawaiian in subject matter or as diverse as their places of origin. Most of the art currently produced in Hawaii falls into this third category.
A statue of Hawaiian deity. Hawaiian narrative or mythology, tells stories of nature and life. It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian narrative, developing its own unique character for several centuries before about 1800. It is associated with the Hawaiian religion. The religion was officially suppressed in the 19th century ...
conflation of Hawaiian petroglyphs for woman and birth, as Haumea was the goddess of both [95] 136199 Eris [81] U+2BF0 (dec 11248) ⯰ the Hand of Eris, a traditional symbol from Discordianism (a religion worshipping the goddess Eris) [51] 136472 Makemake [81] U+1F77C (dec 128892) 🝼 engraved face of the Rapa Nui god Makemake, also resembling ...
Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons; Black Mountain Rock Art District; Chalfant Petroglyph Site; Chumash Indian Museum; Coso Rock Art District; Hemet Maze Stone; Meadow Lake Petroglyphs; Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) Yellow Jacket Petroglyphs
Water glyphs are a recurring type of petroglyph found across the American southwest, but primarily in southern Utah, northern Arizona, and Nevada. The symbols are thought to be of ancient origin (perhaps created by the Ancestral Puebloans) and have been dated using x-ray fluorescence to around 2000 years. Classification as a water glyph ...
Conflation of Hawaiian petroglyphs for woman and birth, as Haumea was the goddess of both [35] Makemake 🝼 U+1F77C Engraved face of the Rapa Nui god Makemake, also resembling an M [35] Gonggong 🝽 U+1F77D Chinese character 共 gòng (the first character in Gonggong's name), combined with a snake's tail [35] Sedna ⯲ U+2BF2
Several of the anthropomorphic and animal-form petroglyphs have parallels in rongorongo, for instance a double-headed frigatebird (glyph 680) on a fallen moꞌai topknot, a figure which also appears on a dozen tablets. [note 10] McLaughlin (2004) illustrates the most prominent correspondences with the petroglyph corpus of Georgia Lee (1992).