PAINTED ROCK, CALIFORNIA

Unfortunately most of the once beautiful pictographs at this site on the western edge of the Carrisa plain have been vandalized and destroyed by weathering.  The rock formation itself resembles the shape of a vulva and it is believed that Chumash female coming of age rites may have taken place here.  There is a book called La Piedra Pintada The Painted Rock, A Legend by Myron Angel that is still to be found at used book stores.  It has some of the photos of the site taken in 1876 by R.R. Holmes.