{"id":8862,"date":"2013-09-25T20:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2013-09-25T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:50:03","slug":"desecration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8862","title":{"rendered":"Desecration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kootenay Lake is home to a impressively large number of pictographs. As I noted in a posting a year and a half ago: pictographs are at once art and\u00a0narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our pictographs are certainly the cultural heritage of First Nations, but beyond that, they are a signpost for us all. They speak to our collective deep ancestry.<\/p>\n

I am distraught. In June I took a picture of one of my favourite pictographs. Three months later (yesterday), I happened by and took another picture. Sometime between, the pictograph suffered major damage. The comparison is below.<\/p>\n

I temporarily imagined that the blue blotches splattered across the ancient images might have been cause by birds. Bird experts assure me: This damage lies outside the capabilities (and poop colour) of birds. The damage was made by humans.<\/p>\n

Alas, this archaeological artifact has been damaged to the point of obscuring the storyline. Not only does the blue (paint splatter?) disfigure, the dark seeping stain from it further obscures. Someone appears to have cavalierly disfigured thousands of years of history.<\/p>\n

This has been reported to the RCMP and the Provincial RAPP (report a violation).<\/p>\n

Will the police and Province act? Who knows? But, for the moment, it seems likely that some thoughtless person has chosen to muddy thousands of years of our (and their own) heritage. Sigh…<\/p>\n

The same portion of a pictograph before and after desecration.
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