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A 13-foot-tall red human-like figure with a U-shaped head looms over several other Pecos River Style images in Texas’ Panther Cave. The figure’s body is decorated with tassels and it holds an atlatl, or spear thrower, in its right hand. Spears in its left hand are connected by slender lines to what researchers have identified (upper right) as a power bundle.
Some of the world’s most riveting and surreal art adorns the walls of 150 rock shelters north of the Rio Grande in Val Verde Count
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