Island River Pictograph Site: Authentic?
Sunday, October 18th, 2009submitted by: Bob Evans
When we were in Ely, summer of 2008, I had a conversation with Steve Piragis, owner of Piragis Northwoods Company and the Boundary Waters Catalog. I was introducing him to our fledgling series of Northwoods Pictograph bulletins. In the course of the conversation he asked me about the Island River Pictograph site. During this same visit he had asked me about the South Hegman Lake Pictograph site. His account with pictures of his trip to the South Hegman Lake site was printed in Boundary Waters News, their on-line newsletter, Fall of 2008.
In June of 2009, after a trip to Ely, I wrote Steve passing on information I had gathered based on some research and our visit to the Island River site. In it I also included information about the South Hegman site, and that information was included in my blog post on September 28, 2009.
In July of 2009, Steve reprinted the original article from the previous Fall and my letter to him about the two sites. Following is the approximate text of part of that publication. I have edited it slightly from what was published to try to clarify some of the points in my original writing.
I have several unanswered questions about this site: (more…)