Painted Rock (Tulare County, California)

Painted Rock is an archaeological and sacred site of the Yokuts of the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation in Tulare County, California.^[1][2] Painted Rock contains petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882^[3] and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903.^[4] One image on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists as "an entire Bigfoot family".^[5]

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Hoffman's 1882 sketch of the rock art seen at the site.
Location	Tule River Reservation, Tulare County, California, United States
Nearest city	Porterville, California
Coordinates	36°1′53″N 118°42′54″W
Governing body	Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation

Sources

• Strain, Kathy Moskowitz (2012). "Mayak Datat: The Hairy Man Pictographs" (PDF). The Relict Hominoid Inquiry. 1. Idaho State University: 1–12. ISSN 2165-770X. Retrieved July 1, 2020.