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Pictograph Cave in Montana is made up of 3 overhanging rock shelters used by the native Americans to draw pictures. These Montana caves are called Pictograph Cave, Middle Cave and Ghost Cave. The cave is one of numerous fluviatile caves formed by the erosion of a long dry river. Over 30,000 artifacts have been found so far. Only one cave is accessible to the public, the others are closed to protect them.
The pictographs are 106 paintings with red, white and yellow figures painted across earlier paintings in black. Typical pictographs are of coup sticks, warriors in full regalia, turtles, bears and bison. H. Melville Sayre first documented the pictographs in 1937 during an excavation that revealed stone and bone tools, projectile points, a carved amulet, pottery shards and burned bone, all from the Middle Prehistoric (3000 BC to 500 AD) to the Late Prehistoric (500 AD to 1800 AD). |
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