Looking for Pictograph Help
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012submitted by: Bob Evans
Progress on the book is being made, but slowly. Some image processing in black and white is difficult. When images are specific, such as a canoe, or a cross, or a figure, we are able to select the red image from the background, change it to B&W and then do any one of a number of things to make it easily visible. In many cases, however, images are abstract and the exact form of the image is not obvious. While we want to show these images, they cannot be easily lifted from the background and showing them in place is difficult. But we are persevering and getting better.
In the mean time we are going to try an additional approach. Many of the unclear images seen now, and in the twenty-five or so years we have been studying them, were once much more clear. In the course of our work we have visited with many paddlers who viewed a site thirty or forty years ago when it was much more clear than now.
So we are going to ask you, our readers, to help us. Following will be a series of posts about specific sites where we will describe sites or parts of sites where information in the form of photographs may have been recorded many decades ago. If you have any of this information or old photos, or know of those who might, please contact us. While we are constantly searching the net for more information, you may know of references with old photos or diagrams about which we are not aware. We will, of course, recognize the sources of the information when we publish.
So please read the posts about what we would like to locate and help us out if you can.
Tags: archaeology, BWCA, canoe, canoe country, indian pictograph, Northwoods Pictographs, Ojibwa, Ojibway, pictograph, Quetico