Sunday Stills ~ Graffiti or Street Art

~I want to seize any pleasure that comes my way

because it might not come by again.~

~Amelia Banks 1901~

This week's Sunday Stills photo challenge was definitely a challenge for me. Living in a very small community such as ours maybe has yet to see it's first graffiti...maybe!

If it has or hasn't, I know that I've never seen any and neither has My Man.

As I was driving into town last week, I drove through a traffic jam...which is a herd of cow/calf pairs being moved down the state highway by the cowboys on horseback. Of course, they leave a pretty big mess behind them. I wondered to myself if cow pucky on the road constituted street art...or if the manure that sprayed up the side of my truck could be considered graffiti?  Well, neither of those ideas would have produced very pleasant photographs to share with everyone.

So, I'm going to resort to a rerun of a photo from a month or so ago...but one that has not been used for Sunday Stills.

The challenge didn't put an age or era limit on the street art...so I'm submitting pictographs that are located on Hat Butte (across the road from us). My friend Ty showed them to me. He and his grandfather found them while trapping in the area when Ty was a lil' boy.

An excerpt from the Burns Paiute Tribe:

The Wadatika (literally waada-eaters) band of Paiute Indians that lived in southern and central Oregon were the ancestors of the Burns Paiute, whose reservation is in Harney County, north of Burns. The area is part of the arid Great Basin region shared by several states. Their language was the northernmost member of the Uto-Aztecan family.

Following the seasons, the Wadatika hunted, fished and gathered edible plants, harvesting their diet from lakes, marshes, streams and uplands. Root gathering and fishing took place in the spring. The roots and fish were dried and placed in storage in anticipation of winter. The Wadatika roamed throughout their lands in the summer, tracking game and collecting seeds. Those activities continued into the fall when they harvested the lakeshore waada plant for its nutritious black seeds. Autumn also was a time for hunting waterfowl. With the advent of winter, out came the stored supplies of dried food. To augment their diet, the Wadatika constructed bulrush mat dwellings near ice-free wetlands in order to harvest water birds, plants and other wildlife.











To see more graffiti and street art photos, go here at Sunday Stills and find the links in the comments.

Have a great week!!