Pre-Columbian Art

The BLM calls this image part of the Cieneguilla Petroglyphs in the Galisteo Basin. I think it could represent Michael Jackson moon walking from right to left.

https://galisteo.nmarchaeology.org/sites/la-cieneguilla-petroglyphs.html

At Cieneguilla, a king with a scepter over a vanquished foe

Or the scepter becomes a snake and the figure becomes Quetzalcoatl

I don't see it as art until after some Colombian!

I think I know how you feel, and I have felt that way, but I have found that if people made it; it qualifies as art.

Huron souls of the Holocaust, Bellow Falls, Vermont

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APetroglyphs_close_up_6-14-2014_12-57-27_PM.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellows_Falls_Petroglyph_Site

Earliest Known sculpture of a man and a snake, officially known as La Venta Stela 19

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Venta_Stele_19_(Delange).jpg

Galisteo Basin petroglyph

Might represent a coiled snake ready to strike, or a coiled snake and the candle-like figures represent lightning. Sometimes PreColumbians associated lightning with snakes.

https://i0.wp.com/santafetravelers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Spiral-Petroglyph-from-Galisteo-Basin.jpg?w=627

The union of horse and human made Native Americans rather than Europeans the dominant powers on the Great Plains in the 18th century. New wealth, trade networks, and conquests meant burgeoning forms of artistic expression in the forms of effigy pipes, axes, feather headdresses, shields, painted buffalo hides, war clubs, saddle blankets, and beautifully embroidered clothing.

Human effigy pipes by Adena or Hopewell artists.

https://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_371w/Boston/2011-2020/2015/03/26/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/1.%20Human%20Effigy%20Pipe.jpg

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/03/28/plains-indians-saga-finds-artistic-expression-met-museum/ivKGeNl31t2siP560ZILvM/story.html

At least I got it!!!!!

Coil at Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t-Ymq1Fi_EI/UKAv8BoR8uI/AAAAAAAAAWw/zvzfjisu3Eg/s320/Sun+Dagger+--+Fajada+Butte+-+Chaco+Canyon.jpg

https://nativeamericanantiquity.blogspot.com/2012/11/archaeoastronomy-fajada-butte-sun.html

see also

https://www.planetquest.org/learn/sundagger.html

The coil at Three Rivers.

https://peripateticbone.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/circles-2.jpg?w=593&h=846

The Rock Art at Three Rivers

Or it could represent Kokopelli moon walking from right to left.

Hopi Coil Basket

https://www.medicinemangallery.com/bio/downloads/img/wac-dec-2015_art-of-the-hopi_medicine-man-6.jpg

at

Medicine Man Gallery

And then there is the man-eating bird...and friends.