Books on Native-American Subjects
from the Borrego Desert Nature Center

The Forgotten Artist: Indians of Anza-Borrego and their Rock Art. By Manfred Knaak. 118 pages. Borrego Springs: Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association. 1988. ISBN 0-910805-04-0. $32.95, paperback.

Winner of a Benjamin Franklin Award, this astonishingly beautiful book explores the pictographs and petroglyphs found hidden away on remote canyon walls and rocks of the Anza-Borrego Desert. This art reveals much about the spiritual life and mythology of ancient dwellers on the land. The rituals and ceremonies recorded on stones were one of mankind's earliest artistic impressions — asking for rain, giving thanks, celebrating birth. Rock art styles differed among the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay, and other Native Americans. Drawn maps on the endpapers show homelands of these tribes.

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