{"id":"MESAPRIETA2026-001","label":"Mesa Prieta horned figure","people_or_site":"Mesa Prieta, northern Rio Grande, New Mexico","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"New Mexico / northern Rio Grande / Mesa Prieta","macroregion":"North America / Southwest","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Pecked rock-art panel, recorded as a photogrammetric surface model. A horned anthropomorph stands with one arm extended laterally toward a long, narrow pecked element. No physical object is involved. The model does not cleanly resolve a cord between hand and element, nor a circular motion arc.","function_summary":"Depiction identified by the recording project as a figure using a bullroarer, with the sound likened to rushing wind or rolling thunder; no rite, performer role or context is recorded for the panel itself.","attestation_type":"rock_art_depiction","source_key":"mesa_prieta_petroglyph_project_015_124_005e","source_type":"public_rock_art_photo_page","source_url":"https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bullroarer-015-124-005e-018c6af98b9d44779d550dd6ca76f409","page_or_plate":"Sketchfab model 015_124_005E and its project description","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Mesa-level anchor for Mesa Prieta on the northern Rio Grande between Espanola and Velarde. The recorder deliberately publishes a panel identifier instead of a coordinate, so no panel or shelter location is available and this point should be read as the mesa, not the site.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"On a basalt face at Mesa Prieta, above the northern Rio Grande, a figure in a horned headdress stands with one arm thrown out to the side. At the end of that reach, pecked into the rock, is a long narrow shape. The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, which recorded the panel as a three-dimensional model, says the figure appears to be using a bullroarer, and notes that its sound is likened to rushing wind or rolling thunder. Nobody has dated the panel, on a mesa whose images run from the Archaic to the present day.","pull_quote":"This figure, wearing a horned headdress, appears to be using an instrument called a bullroarer.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, description of its 3D model of the panel (published 7 May 2024)","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"rock_art","date_display":"Undated","date_qualification":"No period assignment for the panel.","date_basis":"undated","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"mesa_prieta_bullroarer_015_124_005e, Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project model 015_124_005E","sources":[{"citation":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, 'Bullroarer (015_124_005E),' photogrammetric 3D model (Sketchfab, 7 May 2024)","url":"https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bullroarer-015-124-005e-018c6af98b9d44779d550dd6ca76f409","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250702184526/https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bullroarer-015-124-005e-018c6af98b9d44779d550dd6ca76f409"}],"source_citations":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, 'Bullroarer (015_124_005E),' photogrammetric 3D model (Sketchfab, 7 May 2024)","source_display":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, 'Bullroarer (015_124_005E),' photogrammetric 3D model (Sketchfab, 7 May 2024)","date_citation_display":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project model 015_124_005E","object_display":"Pecked rock-art panel, recorded as a photogrammetric surface model. A horned anthropomorph stands with one arm extended laterally toward a long, narrow pecked element. No physical object is involved. The model does not cleanly resolve a cord between hand and element, nor a circular motion arc.","function_display":"Depiction identified by the recording project as a figure using a bullroarer, with the sound likened to rushing wind or rolling thunder; no rite, performer role or context is recorded for the panel itself.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"rock art depiction","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mesa prieta","display_name":"Mesa Prieta horned figure","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MESAPRIETA2026-001_exact_surface_015-124-005e.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MESAPRIETA2026-001_exact_surface_015-124-005e_thumb.jpg","credit":"Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, model 015_124_005E","license":"No open license stated; rehosted still from the public photogrammetric model for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bullroarer-015-124-005e-018c6af98b9d44779d550dd6ca76f409","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The horned figure on its basalt boulder at Mesa Prieta, one arm thrown out toward a long pecked shape; a still from the project’s 3D model."},"slug":"mesaprieta2026-001-mesa-prieta-panel-015-124-005e-exact-coordinate-withheld-by-the-recorde"}