Painted Violin by Bill Worrell
"Tucked away in protected rock shelters above the Lower Pecos River lay the vestiges of an ancient American Culture of primitive people who occupied caves and began painting around 3500 - 3000 B.C., mysteriously vanishing around 1000 A.D. The images they created with mixtures of mineral pigments, charcoal, and possibly blood and animal fat suggest an interesting connection with the sacred ceremonies of these early tribesmen. Animals and other intriguing forms with and without faces, believed to have been the artwork of shamans, embellish the cave walls in stunning and mystical silence. One can only speculate upon their many symbolic meanings."