The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Witte Museum 000 years ago until historic

000 years ago until historic times

Internationally acclaimed photographer Al Rendón has been documenting the extended culture of south-central Texas for more than five decades

keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical

Mesquite and cactus were central to celebrations

taking with it a part of our larger

The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Witte Museum 000 years ago until historicThe prehistoric hunter gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In The White Shaman Mural,